Back in 2010, life felt uncertain. The economy was in shambles, Ramon had been laid off, and the Bay Area’s relentless grind and focus on money had started to wear on us. We found ourselves daydreaming about a different kind of life. One rooted in nature, creativity, good food, and connection. At the time, we […]
How Reverie Retreat Got Its Name (and Started in a Snowstorm) Read More »
Like millions of other people in Northern California, we have experienced several power outages in the past few weeks. But unlike most of the customers, we have not had power for a total of 10 days in October – that is 1/3 of the month! We do have a portable back-up generator, which we installed
Power – or lack thereof Read More »
Every spring we have watched a pair of Canada geese occupy their nest on top of our potting shed, protecting the eggs they’ve laid there and eyeing us suspiciously for weeks as we walk to and fro nearby. Yet every year they have departed without succeeding in their quest for a family. Something always seems
Five years. That’s how long ago we purchased the property for Reverie Retreat. If you had told us in 2012 how complicated it would be, and how long it would take, we most likely wouldn’t have done it. It’s probably best that we didn’t know. And yet, here we are, five years later, and things
As some of you know and have seen we are fortunate to have a lot of water on our property.One of the best things is the “irrigation ditch” in which we have the rubber ducky race. But when we are not duck racing we use the ditch water for irrigating our fruit trees, vegetables
Great News! Finally! We haven’t written a blog lately because for the past two months we were preoccupied with preparing for our hearing at the Planning Commission for our conditional use permit and didn’t want to write anything that would give anyone who might object to our project a stick to hit us
It’s been a while since we updated everyone on our project development process so here’s a quick end-of-the-year status report: Conditional Use Permit process: Well the permitting process continues to be glacial, but even glaciers do move. And so is this one…finally. We have completed everything that El Dorado County needs from
Project Development Update Read More »
As Icarus found out the sun is a powerful source of energy. And so from the beginning we intended to have a renewable energy source and as most of you know we started the process of clearing land to make space for a large array a while ago (look at this
I have some really good news to share about our permitting process. After we were told in November, 2015, in response to our special use permit application, that we couldn’t do a retreat center under our current zoning, we were waiting for the County Board of Supervisors to vote yay or nay on the
We’ve had a setback with the El Dorado County planning department. By way of background, we first met with the planning department in October, 2012, when we were still in escrow on the Reverie property, to find out from the Planning Department staff if we could do the Reverie project with the current
Bump in the road…or dead end? Read More »
