Modern Traditional Slab Hut
Donation protected
Bringing the Aussie Slab Hut into the 21st Century
Keeping alive timeless wood craftsmanship while optimising biodiversity.
Ballarat Region Treegrowers is seeking funds to update the design of the uniquely Australian bush hut to suit the 21st century. Handcrafted through the lost art of pegging green wood, the tiny hut will showcase common native timbers, localism and low energy sustainability principles. Standing within a clearing of Ballarat Region Treegrowers’ (BRT) 15 hectare biodiverse plantation at Lal Lal, the hut will act as a focus for community education by BRT and the Moorabool Landcare Network on ecological restoration combined with farm forestry. Now 10 years old, the analogue forestry site is already visited by students, and the hut will provide a further practical demonstration of how we can connect conservation and production, the only pathway we have to a truly sustainable future.
The project is supported by the Australian Forest Growers / Institute of Foresters Australia.
Background to the Aussie Slab Hut project is at: www.biorichplantations.com/21chut
The master craftsman is Lachlan Park, visit www.lpwoodwork.com
OBJECTIVES
• To showcase native Australian plantation grown timbers and their suitability for
building huts and sheds
• To bring foresters, wood workers and conservationists together to consider the use of local wood as a sustainable and materially renewable resource
• To demonstrate hand tool use and its relevance in the present day
• To highlight the synergy of small structures in a resource-constrained era
• To bring the traditional miners or shepherds hut into the 21st century, evoking the romance of these dwellings from a bygone era.
Keeping alive timeless wood craftsmanship while optimising biodiversity.
Ballarat Region Treegrowers is seeking funds to update the design of the uniquely Australian bush hut to suit the 21st century. Handcrafted through the lost art of pegging green wood, the tiny hut will showcase common native timbers, localism and low energy sustainability principles. Standing within a clearing of Ballarat Region Treegrowers’ (BRT) 15 hectare biodiverse plantation at Lal Lal, the hut will act as a focus for community education by BRT and the Moorabool Landcare Network on ecological restoration combined with farm forestry. Now 10 years old, the analogue forestry site is already visited by students, and the hut will provide a further practical demonstration of how we can connect conservation and production, the only pathway we have to a truly sustainable future.
The project is supported by the Australian Forest Growers / Institute of Foresters Australia.
Background to the Aussie Slab Hut project is at: www.biorichplantations.com/21chut
The master craftsman is Lachlan Park, visit www.lpwoodwork.com
OBJECTIVES
• To showcase native Australian plantation grown timbers and their suitability for
building huts and sheds
• To bring foresters, wood workers and conservationists together to consider the use of local wood as a sustainable and materially renewable resource
• To demonstrate hand tool use and its relevance in the present day
• To highlight the synergy of small structures in a resource-constrained era
• To bring the traditional miners or shepherds hut into the 21st century, evoking the romance of these dwellings from a bygone era.
Fundraising team: Ballarat Region Treegrowers (2)
Gary Featherston
Organizer
Buninyong, VIC
Jacquie Martin
Beneficiary
Gib Wettenhall
Team member