Straw Bale Homes

We had a great workshop this weekend and we would like to thank everyone who participated and everyone who helped make everything run smoothly. Here are a few pictures (more to come) and we should get some nice video footage to post too. The construction site will be a straw bale home soon.
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Everyone working on building the straw bale walls.

Natural Building is so easy, even the kids can do it. Here’s Wesley working with earth plaster.

In preparing for our upcoming straw bale workshop, we are building a post and beam house with round pole framing. Here are a few pictures of how it’s coming along. We are going to put earthbag around the outside of the concrete footers and stack the straw bales on top of that. We may need to call in reinforcements to get it ready in time for the workshop.

And here it is a few days later with the rafters and bender-board roof decking…

Earthbag filled with limestone gravel for the foundation.