A home for living in

Oliver Moore plumped for ecovillage living, driven not by lofty idealism but by a wish to live and bring up children in a sustainable community where people talk to each other

Deciding to move to Cloughjordan, and build a house in its ecovillage, was easy to some extent. We are a family with two children, aged 12 and seven, and want somewhere great to bring the kids up, where they can play outside with ease.

Community, and living a more environmentally-sound lifestyle, are important to us. It is too easy to slip into eating junk, driving everywhere and not really knowing many people well in the isolation of a typical housing estate. We hope that Cloughjordan ecovillage will provide a supportive framework for the way we’d ideally like to live.