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I live on a farm that is registered on the REA (agricultural holdings register). Every morning, as soon as I get up, I start up my own waste-to-energy plant that is run on sustainable production biomass. This helps to cut greenhouse gas emissions and, therefore, helps to offset climate change.
Luis Maria Artabe Zearreta feeding the livestock. Aldanagoikoa Farmstead in Amorebieta-Etxano (Bizkaia), 1985. Manuel Ignacio Zubia Artabe.
The internal distribution of spaces in rural houses varied to more adequately meet the needs of households and their way of living. So there where livestock farming was the major activity the whole or most of the ground floor would be originally used for stabling. Should the hearth be on that same floor, hatches in the wall were fairly common for feeding the cows straight from the kitchen or the passageway. Being so very close, domestic animals actually provided a natural means of heating agricultural dwellings. (more…)
Leitzaran (Navarre). Euskal Herria. Collection of slides. SEIE Group.
There are two major types of settlement patterns in the Basque Country: dispersed and concentrated, the former on the Atlantic side of the watershed and the latter in the southern regions. Semi-compact settlements or rural villages consisting of small clusters of houses, and therefore considered a phase of transition from isolated to compact settlements, are also to be found. According to Barandiaran, higher-density forms of settlement are preceded by agro-pastoral developments. (more…)
Original medieval hut and sketch of later hut (turquoise) and present farmstead (magenta). Drawing by Imanol Larrinaga. Courtesy of Gerediaga Association.
The farmstead is a cornerstone of our landscape, and although we often imagine them in isolation from each other midst farmland, the disposition of houses in the region of Durango, more precisely in Berriz (Bizkaia), indicates organized settlement clusters did occur as early as the Middle Ages. Andikoa is a clear instance of self-sufficient rural neighbourhood. (more…)
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