Eco Living

The aspiration of Parito is to nurture the well-being of land and people.

This aspiration is lived at Parito with these facets of sustainable living:

• Application of Permaculture principles is used to produce organically grown food and nurture the land generally
• Recycled and/or eco-sourced materials used in building and day to day life
• House designed to maximise passive solar heating
• Solar power and solar hot water system
• Wind power to complement solar power system
• Vermiculture waste system handles all the organic household waste
• Plant-based cleaning materials
• Winter time use of fire for cooking and water heating
• Zero-waste aspiration. 

Permaculture in action

Solar panels

Wind generator

A field of native plants which absorbs the last of the filtered
waste water before it is released to the atmosphere
through the leaves of the plants