natural-building Tag Posts Index

Lost and Found AGAIN - The Promotional Video for Itínera's Theater Build

This video keeps getting lost. It was created waaaay before the actual construction documented in this series of posts, as the final project of one of our classmates

Cycling Down the Baja - Taking a Break from Taking a Break

After my Odyssee on the Terracerías I decided a bit of a break was well deserved. Also, Wednesday was coming up, which meant I needed to be connected to teach my

The Shape of an Earthen Building

Born into a world of box shaped homes and standardized everything I have been searching for a more organic life. And now that I am spending my afternoons building

How it's Going and Where I'm Headed 🪵🪨 Learning to Love the Process 🛖 DIY Build Update

Building a home with our home with our own hands is a lot or work. Now this is so obvious I almost feel silly saying so. But, when I dreamed of building our own

The Secret Ingredient to a Succesful DIY Build

The project sounds simple. A 6.5 by 6.5 foot workshop made with natural materials. We were sure it would be completed by now. Yet, here I am, plugging away on this

Rocks to Walls ~ From the Pages of my Natural Building Diaries

At last the time has arrived! After months and months of moving rocks by hand and earth by buckets we have finally begun to build a structure on our land. It is

My Many Attempts at Lime Wash Paint ~ A Silly Story with an Unknown Ending

Three years ago I began building this bench out of entirely natural materials. Clay from the land itself, straw from a nearby feed store, and a bit of sand from

Natural Building Diaries ~ My Experiments with Clay Pasters

This is not the only way to build with Earth. This is simply how I do it. Remember, these are my natural building diaries. And thus will be accounts of my trials,

Sculpting Outdoor Garden Furniture with Clay, Sand, and Straw

Getting out campsite sorted has been underway for a while now. The main pillars of comfort have been established. There is a place to sleep, a kitchen, and even

The Traveling Homestead ~ Back to the Trailer in the Woods ~ Building with Cob

Oak trees tower above me. Their branches sway in the wind and drop spiky leaves onto the forest floor. Deer make their way silently (and turkeys not so silently)

The Beauty of Natural Building Techniques - An Audio-Visual Experience (feat. The Nito Project)

Concrete - it's anywhere we look! And though it has enabled humanity to build enormous steel-enforced skyscrapers and infrastructure like bridges and tunnels, it

Natural Building Diaries ~ from planning to building

Our dream home has lived on paper and in inspired imagination for years. The two of us have spent hours and hours discussing the details, drawing out designs, erasing,

Natural Building Diary ~ creating the hedgerow

At this moment the hedgerow is in it's infancy. It will be truly magical to see it grow and ourselves grow in the process of building a home and one day living in

Natural Building Diary ~ gathering the building blocks

Garden Structures Made With Earth!

Each garden location comes with its own challenges, from erosion to pests and beyond. In this little mountain garden our main challenge is protecting our herbs from

Building with Nature

Earth is abundant. Earth is everywhere. And this technique of building earthen furniture, called cob, a combination of five ingredients: clay, sand, straw, water

Hempcrete Finally Aproved by Building Code

More than three decades ago a radically new building material started gaining popularity - in Europe: The benefits of hempcrete (a.k.a. hemplime) include exceptional

Working at the Doighouse Earthship Build

An Earthship build on beautiful Vancouver Island in 2018. Before we could start the actual build, there were a lot of other preparatory activities.

Earthship Theater Build in Mazunte

This is an long project, spanning several years, of the construction of a sustainable theater in the town of Mazunte, on the Pacific coast of Mexico. Though the

Campaigning for Itínera - The Countdown Has Started (Launch Date: Nov. 20)

As I mentioned, hinted, and alluded to it (mostly in this post), there is a crowdfunding campaign coming up: Itínera Theater, the natural-building / theater group