Nick Radford has spent over 20 years studying and applying sustainability across a wide spectrum of related disciplines. He completed three of years of a Bachelor of Architecture at the University of NSW, while working with architects, landscape architects and engineers.
Nick has travelled through Europe, India, Nepal, and South America, extensively in Peru. He observed lowland rainforest ecology, and sustainable cultures in coastal fishing villages and the Andean mountains. He worked on a mudbrick and bamboo house with desert garden, visited a self sufficient coffee growing co operative. He assisted with field research in a cloud forest, an extensive permaculture garden and in rainforest regeneration. These experiences were crucial in forming an early understanding of sustainable building and gardening techniques, and developing design philosophy.

In 1997 he created a model of sustainable practice on a 2 acre block at Repton building a low cost passive solar house from second hand timber, mudbrick and packed sawdust, including non toxic interiors. He owner built the first council approved compost toilet in the Bellingen shire, dual tank/town water. He’s worked as a landscaper, native nursery and organic garlic farm hand. He assisted in the building of a strawbale house and is currently involved in the planning of an ecovillage in Bellingen.