As far back as the Stone Age, peat was used as a building material throughout northern Europe and the Arctic for thousands of years.
In Iceland, these green houses fit seamlessly into the landscape, thanks to a building technique introduced here by Nordic and British settlers between the ninth and 11th centuries - the height of the Viking era.
My name is Fenna, 31 years old and living in Beilen in beautiful county Drenthe, The Netherlands. I work in the hospitality industry but in the meantime I am working on a different passion: photography! I'm studying to become a proffesional photographer at the photo school in Apeldoorn... Read more…