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I want to live in a society where people are intoxicated with the joy of making things. -Bill Copperthwaite
238 Quaker City Road Acworth, New Hampshire (603) 499-2568 twogirlsyurts@gmail.com
OUR YURTS: Two Girls is located on fifty-four acres of fields and woods in southwest New Hampshire along the border of southern Vermont. Our yurts are made for full-time living. We have been building yurts and homesteading since 1999. We have personally lived in our yurts year round for decades. They have kept their inhabitants warm through thousands of northern New England winters. Our yurts are made with un-milled saplings harvested from local coppices, making each one unique.
US: Ken and Adriane build the wooden parts and ever-more infrastructure to hold more yurt parts. The 'two girls' are Aster and Fern. Aster loves farming and contra dancing. Fern was born in a yurt. Now she's building her own tiny house gypsy wagon when yurt building allows.
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THE ORIGIN OF THE YURT:
For thousands of years across central Asia, the yurt has been the primary dwelling for nomadic livestock herders. Their designs have depended on the available materials and tools, snow and wind loads, summer and winter temperatures, rainfall, how often they need to be moved and by what sort of draft animals, etc. Hundreds of generations of yurt builders have modified every element of their yurts, leading to countless variations. Our design draws on the present-day Mongolian yurt and the American adaptations of Bill Copperthwaite and Chuck and Laurel Cox. Our choices of sizes, fabrics, frame materials, and joinery are a careful compromise of ecological sensitivity and economy, built explicitly for full-time use in northern New England with our cold snowy winters and wet windy summers. Guided by years of living in our own yurts, we build them with the end function in mind--they must be simple, resilient, and they have to work! As form follows function, we hope their beauty derives from their practicality.
