Sandhill Farm built a greenhouse in rural Missouri using earthbags for the base of the wall structure. They chose a 30ft x 20ft area, centrally located among the gardens, with good southern exposure. After three days of earthbagging, they were ready to begin framing the top part of the walls. Light straw clay was used … Read more
If a picture is worth 1,000 words, then a video is worth… Maybe that’s why my NaturalHouse YouTube channel is so popular. 2. Finished Earthbag Roundhouse 3. Cement Plastering 4. Building an Earthbag Dome 5. Hardness Test 6. Enviro Dome Fly-through 7. $300 Earthbag House 8. How to Make Square Corners 9. Bag Size 10. … Read more
Every year we publish the most popular blog posts for the last 12 months. We’ll do that again in November on our 4th anniversary. Our goal here is to look at the most popular blog posts since we’ve started – the Best of the Bestest. Think of them as hidden gems unless you’ve read all … Read more
The lightweight geopolymer earthbag method I described yesterday opens the door to building boulder houses that could last hundreds or even thousands of years. All sorts of other styles could also be built, but for some reason (maybe because rocks last almost forever) these boulder houses really capture my imagination. Worst case scenario is you … Read more
I’m proposing using a combination of ferrocement, earthbags and porous geopolymer to build durable, affordable housing. In a nutshell, earthbags filled with lightweight geopolymer cement are fastened to a rebar or bamboo frame and then plastered with geopolymer cement. This is distinctly different from heavy earthbag walls, and much different than regular thin shell ferrocement … Read more
Sounds and Rhythms at the earthbag construction of the Green Resource Centre at Alerek in Abim district, Karamoja, Northern Uganda. This delightful musical video is the most fun I’ve had watching something on YouTube for a long time, maybe ever. It had me tapping along and wanting to get up and dance. You’ve got to … Read more