Cottaging is more fun when your power comes from the sun! If you’re looking for a getaway into nature, Kawartha Lakes is the place to be. While you’re enjoying the beautiful environment here, it’s always good to think about ways to minimize your environmental impact! This cottage in Traverse City, Michigan is completely powered by solar panels in its backyard. “The result is no carbon footprint. Power comes from a bank of solar panels that sits quietly in the yard—the home is so tightly insulated, it needs far less power than a traditionally built home. On a similarly green note, the clean runoff water from the home’s groundwater heat pump fills a manmade trout pond.” Sounds like a great, green way to spend summers!
Head down South Tager Road, a country lane that meanders through the heart of Leelanau County, and you can’t help but feel the serenity. A herd of free-range goats grazes around a weathered barn, birds it through brush, and well, there isn’t much else—except for a new home built in a sunny field at the edge of a forest. Happily, the home, built by Scott Norris Construction and owned by Dr. James Reznich and his wife Dr. Julie Botsford, could not be more perfectly suited in style and in substance, to this location. Nudged into a berm, the dove-gray home...
Cottaging is more fun when your power comes from the sun! If you’re looking for a getaway into nature, Kawartha Lakes is the place to be. While you’re enjoying the beautiful environment here, it’s always good to think about ways to minimize your environmental impact! This cottage in Traverse City, Michigan is completely powered by solar panels in its backyard. “The result is no carbon footprint. Power comes from a bank of solar panels that sits quietly in the yard—the home is so tightly insulated, it needs far less power than a traditionally built home. On a similarly green note, the clean runoff water from the home’s groundwater heat pump fills a manmade trout pond.” Sounds like a great, green way to spend summers!