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Article: Yurt sweet yurt: the value of simple living.(sustainable living)(Editorial)
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- New Life Journal
- Article date:
- June 1, 2004
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As my husband and I crest the top of the hill, our eyes meet a strange scene--nestled in the small Appalachian valley, a garden of raised beds filled with vegetables and flowers spreads out before us. Behind the garden rests a large, wood-sided, passive solar house with a new tin roof. To the right and in front of the house, with basil and winter squash growing almost to its door, rests a spaceship. The clear dome at the 11-foot apex of its rounded top sparkles in the sun, and its circular, aerodynamic body seems prepared for a silent liftoff. Perhaps we shouldn't be surprised to see a spaceship in the backwoods of Madison County, North Carolina; after all, the New Agers ...