Posted on 4th Aug 2026

Our construction activities slowed down somewhat during June and July, as it has been a little bit hot... but we've kept going, undeterred! A number of amazing friends came to spend an active holiday with us this past month in Miramon. Starting with Val, Vincent and Jérémy, whose enthusiasm and go...

Posted on 30th May 2026

In Miramon, we’re used to planting things… but rarely black locust wooden posts 30 cm in diameter and 3 metres long! So last Friday, we really needed the help of two excavator operators, respectively equiped with a 14-tonne and 10-tonne excavator, to drive the 18 posts – which Manon, Renée, Mayuan a...

Posted on 26th May 2026

A brief look back at the upheavals that have taken place over the last two weeks in Miramon. On Monday 11 May, a backhoe loader burst onto our overgrown meadow, where we had placed a few bamboo markers. In a matter of hours, through the frightening magic of the diesel engine, two platforms were c...

Posted on 18th May 2026

22 February 2026, midday The sun is shining brightly over Miramon. It’s really hot, so we’re glad we’ve brought our hats. Today, we have come with the intention of exploring and gaining a better understanding of this place – and connecting with it – through a slightly broader lens: our sensiti...

Posted on 27th Apr 2026

21 January 2026, late afternoon. “If you want to look after your trees, really, just leave them alone.” CM arrives on the hill half an hour late. A bit dishevelled, gentle, energetic, less burly than I’d imagined. Miramon welcomes him with a spectacular twilight fireworks display of clouds, go...

Posted on 31st Dec 2025

Prelude Our terrain is quite interesting. Miramon is perched on a small hill. Cycling here from the nearest village requires strong leg muscles, as the path winds up the mountain with almost no flat sections. Because of our elevated position, standing beneath the oak trees, you can gaze far into t...

Posted on 23rd Feb 2026

Monday, 16 February. Up at 6:30 a.m., slept poorly. The stress of a big day of travelling, which I was a little apprehensive about. Our main mission today: to pick up an umbrella... measuring 120 square metres. There are days like this that seem like imaginal cells, fractal images of the greater j...

Posted on 6th Jan 2026

It's official: yesterday, we signed the final deed of sale for a small plot of land in the Béarn foothills of the Pyrenees. A small piece of land, once covered in forest, where generations of sheep have grazed and which has been watched over for centuries by seven majestic oak trees. A place called...

Posted on 31st Dec 2025

How did I end up here in Miramon? In order to answer this question, I will have to go back to the summer of 2008, my first year in high school. At that time I had not yet realized that my three year curriculum consisted of two years of learning new materials and one year of intense exam preparati...