SpurTopia Homestead – Sustainable Paradise
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SpurTopia Homestead – Sustainable Paradise
Our SpurTopia Homestead is aiming to be self-sufficient (energy, water, food and waste-free) to showcase our home for people to come and be inspired.
Applying a clever design, our ideas, inventions and engineering, including using readily available materials, make the place outstanding with continuous improvements. We passionately like to share practical and inexpensive ideas for sustainable living.
You could see us on ABC’s Gardening Australia, Channel 11’s Totally Wild, Channel 10’s BrainBuzz, Bris 31 TV and numerous newspaper and magazine articles, radio interviews, talks and workshops.
Using entire land to our benefit – Permaculture design
– Food Production
– Energy positive
– close to water sufficiency
– nearly waste free
BE INSPIRED TO CREATE YOUR OWN UTOPIA.
We run countless of inspirational, educational and empowering talks and workshops.
Watch SpurTopia Homestead on this this short video here.
Roman Spur’s ideas and inventions on ABC’s Gardening Australia.
Sustainability Features
- Energy efficiency:
- Energy monitoring
- Water heating:
- Solar hot water (flat panel)
- Water harvesting and saving features:
- Rainwater storage - Above ground
Blackwater system
Grey water system
Stormwater management
Drip irrigation
- Above ground rainwater storage Type:
- polytanks
- Above ground rainwater storage Size
- 100kL+
- Window Protection:
- Eaves
- Recycled and reused materials:
- Bottles
Bricks
Rocks/stone
Timber
- Insulation Type:
- Ceiling
- Ceiling Type:
- Bulk – glass wool
- All-Electric Home?
- Yes
- Cost estimate of sustainable home/features:
- $15,000
- Estimate of annual savings:
- $2000 per month
- House Size
- 250m2
- Roof
- Metal (Colorbond)
- Wall Materials
- Brick veneer
- Window and Door Types
- Sliding windows/doors
- Number of bedrooms
- 5
- Number of bathrooms
- 3
- Garden / Outdoors
- Bee keeping
Bee hotels/friendly
Bird-nesting boxes
Chickens
Composting
Drip irrigation
Edible garden
Frog friendly
Local indigenous plants
Orchard
Organic
Permaculture
Native plants
Swales
Wicking beds
Worm farm
- Waste Reduction Practices:
- Compost all food scraps
Make jams/conserves
Pickle and preserve food
Recycle
Repair
Recycle coffee grounds from nearby cafe's
Take own containers to the supermarket and for take away food
Swap with friends and neighbours
- Housing Type:
- Standalone House
- Project Type:
- Garden Only
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