Autumn

The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.  ~Albert Camus [...]

Koinonia Natural Building Course

Here are the final pics from our natural building course at Koinonia Community in Americus, Georgia, home of Habitat for Humanity. What a jam packed four days! I want to thank all of our students and the members of Koinona wholeheartedly. It was outrageous! Enjoy!  

Koinonia Natural Building Course Day Three

Cob oven, clay-straw slip, plastering, earth bag walls, hinge for humanure toilet seat, the list of activities continue to grow. Tomorrow is our last day and we will finish up all the many projects. It has been a blast. Looking forward to the next one with all the hospitable folks at Koinonia in Americus, Georgia! [...]

Koinonia Natural Building Workshop Continued

Here at Koinonia we are moving along rapidly. Today we laid tile in the rubble trench, added landscape fabric and finished them off with gravel. We got the cob oven sand form built and will be putting on cob tomorrow morning. The round pole framing is almost complete and the bamboo base for wattle and [...]

Koinonia Natural Building Workshop in Americus, Georgia

This morning, after lectures on ecological building modalities Cliff Davis, myself, and the students headed out to the site which will become a hybrid, straw-clay, earth-bag, cob building. We will also be constructing a cob oven. After completing our PDC 2011 yesterday we started at 8:30 AM on our next adventure. Most of the initial [...]