Building With Us

Here is our earth bag home on the mountain.


Clay sand and straw

The first coat of plaster! Once the holes dried we began the first coat which consists of filling the horizontal cracks. The next coat will cover the remaining white sections and from there we will decide if a third finer coat will be needed.

Mixing batches of render by hand really means, by foot! Mud gets these two a little wacky but they are a real help. We add sifted clay (excavated from the site) with sand and water. Then I dump the mixture out onto a tarp and the fun begins- adding straw and stamping.



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