Rental
Terre de Vie is a healing community designed for families dealing with environmental illness. Our month to month furnished rental homes are built on clean land, offering a safe and healthy living environment so you and your loved ones can heal.
The Land
Terre de Vie is nestled on 60 acres of permaculture forest in the Sierra foothills, just 2 hours from the Bay Area and an hour from Sacramento.
It sits between the Sierra Nevada playground and the bountiful Central Valley in northern California. Hiking, swimming holes, kayaking, and Kirkwood ski resort are all in our backyard. Local farms offer everything from apples to zinnias. For wine aficionados, Amador County is home to the Shenandoah Valley. Award-winning allergy-friendly restaurants abound.
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The Home
"Build Tight, Ventilate Right"
Our rental home was carefully built to create healthy, comfortable indoor air quality. The foundation has a taped Stego vapor barrier and good drainage. The house is framed with Zip-R Sheathing and taped Advantech subfloor and Intello air barrier. We used Rockwool insulation, paperless drywall, and a tiled Schluter membrane around the shower. The home is heated and cooled with minisplits, which we clean on a regular basis. It has a Zehnder Heat Recovery Ventilator that constantly brings in filtered, conditioned fresh air from the tree-filled canyon just outside the door. All of the wiring was done with metal clad cable. Every room has at least one ethernet connection and the main electrical panel is equipped an EMFSafe cutoff switch to create an EMF-free sleep sanctuary. All of our building materials and finishes are low-VOC and have had time to offgas. There are HEPA air filters in every room.
