Enter Asheville 2: My Sanctuary
After leaving Leicester I landed on an old neglected junk yard under the pretense of being a farm.
I figured I might stay here for the winter, and I knew my tent would keep.me warm with the stove but I also knew I didn’t want to spend the winter stuck in a tent too small to stand in, so I made it into a yurt.
DIY Yurt
I even buit me a cot out of sticks and rope to reduce heat loss by conduction.
Hand made cot
My days were mostly occupied with gathering fire wood for the coming cold. I built a firewood rack out of all natural materials and cut and split all the fire wood using only hand tools. This was quite a chore in late December.
Handmade firewood & rack
I tried to clean the place up but was led to believe I’d never be able to use anything I was trying to revive: the greenhouse was, like everything else in the junk yard, waiting for “the right person,” which I am evidently not.
Cleaning up the waste and ruin
I lived by lamp light during the long winter nights and ate many free meals from 12 Baskets, a local charity.
Simple Food, Simple Light
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