WELCOME TO FIVEMILE HILL

Hello and welcome! Fivemile Hill is a subscription website offering courses on how to live in harmony with nature and create unforgettable experiences at home.

Our mission is to help restore biodiversity. We imagine a new way of life and build the home of the future. It is a healthy and resilient home centered on nature and shared by humans and other species.

We want to lead a meaningful life. We believe in nature, beauty, taste, and authenticity. We nurture our inner child and have fun!

We are a designer-engineer couple living in the Texas Hill Country. Tom is from Germany and Aurélie is French-Indonesian. We create and write everything on this website ourselves.

GOURMET HOME CUISINE

Living in harmony with nature starts with what we eat and creating unforgettable culinary experiences at home. Here you can learn about culinary compositions, including recipes, nutritious and sustainable ingredients, techniques, equipment, and cultural insights.

Fivemile Hill cuisine is a gourmet home cuisine using wood fire and natural heirloom ingredients, fit for the Texas Hill Country, inspired by tropical, Asian, and Mediterranean traditions. It fits a balanced, varied, plant-rich diet supporting human and planet health.

NATURE AT HOME - COMING SOON

Living in harmony with nature means sharing our space and providing habitat for wildlife at home. Here you will find a gallery of nature photos taken at our home, as well as designs for wildlife-friendly outdoor features.

The Fivemile Hill home is a living space shared by humans, wildlife, and native plants. Infrastructure and buildings blend seamlessly with the surrounding nature and provide ecological benefits, such as water features for birds and pollinators, or wildlife-friendly outdoor lighting.

HEALTHY AND RESILIENT SYSTEMS - COMING SOON

We believe in the wise use of technology to improve quality of life at home. Here you will find designs for home systems, including blueprints, product comparison, how to select providers, and essential knowledge explained for a non-technical audience.

With Fivemile Hill systems, we create a home where water/energy efficiency and resilience go together with better health, comfort, and performance. This includes clean air, soft water, Internet/Wifi that works in metal and concrete buildings, and reliable home office IT.

WHO WE ARE

We are a multicultural family living in the Texas Hill Country. Tom is an engineer, originally from Germany. Aurélie is a designer, originally French-Indonesian.

We have a house on a 0.2-acre lot in San Antonio that we renovated ourselves in a modern European style, with a contemplative nature garden and water feature that we share with suburban wildlife.

We are also stewards of a 21-acre land near Bandera where we are working to restore a native ecosystem and create a sanctuary for wild birds and pollinators, and where we plan to live and host retreats/workshops.

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MEMBERSHIP

While we provide some information for free, most of this website is accessible to members only.

The annual membership fee of $40 makes it possible to offer an ad-free, tranquil, and trustworthy experience.

We respect your privacy. We don't track what you do. We collect the minimum information to manage subscriptions and don't share or resell any personal data.

All content is created by us (Tom & Aurélie). We write every word and take every photo ourselves. We don't use AI.

We donate 10% of our revenue to non-profit organizations who support nature and wildlife conservation.

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