I’ve mentioned before that I am a transplanted city girl. No rural background. Not by any stretch of the imagination. I am so “city” that it is at times downright comical. When I moved from Montreal to Calgary years ago, I’d heard tell of “Cow town” and pictured horse drawn carriages, farms and quaint corner [...]
Archive for August, 2010
The Little Things
Posted in off grid, Sustainable living, Uncategorized, tagged rural life, Sustainable living on August 31, 2010 | 3 Comments »
The Adventure Continues
Posted in earthbag, earthbag building, natural building, off grid, passive solar design, Sustainable living, tagged earthbag, earthbag building, earthbag domes, natural building, sandbag building, superadobe, sustainable building, Sustainable living on August 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It’s been a while since an update and still I feel there’s not much “new” to report. (“What do you want to do today?” is kind of an ongoing joke around here- the answer being “how about we build some more?”) The weather is getting interesting again, being August and the end of our (altogether [...]
Not Quite a Ninja
Posted in earthbag, earthbag building, natural building, Sustainable living, tagged comedy, natural building, self sustaining, sustainable building on August 12, 2010 | 3 Comments »
The building has gotten quite difficult in the last while. I’m not sure that my ninja skills are entirely up to this task but I know there’s not much choice at this stage of the game. The combination of the height of the domes and the door and window frames being “in the way” have [...]
Feeding Ourselves
Posted in gardening, permaculture, polyculture, raised bed gardens, seed harvesting, Sustainable living, tagged gardening, permaculture, polyculture, raised bed gardens, self sustaining, Sustainable living on August 10, 2010 | 8 Comments »
I reported a while back on getting started on our raised bed gardens. The soil out here is crap and it’s really difficult to grow anything in it so I had to start from scratch with soil building. I haven’t had much time (what with building a house!) but I’m happy to report that it’s [...]
Guilt-free Shopping
Posted in recycling, Sustainable living, waste managment, tagged natural building, recycling, reuse, scavenging, sustainable building, Sustainable living on August 6, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Scavenging has become an important part of our building process. One of our (many) goals is to keep construction to under $5,000- no small feat. Sure, we’re definitely saving by using the earth beneath our feet as our primary construction material, but there are other materials needed along the way. Most of which we’ve been [...]
Dome-home Progress
Posted in earthbag, earthbag building, natural building, Sustainable living, tagged earthbag building, earthbag domes, natural building, superadobe, sustainable building on August 3, 2010 | 4 Comments »
It’s really taking shape now. The kitchen and living room walls are now taller than me. And we’ve started chinking, though there’s a long way to go. We’ll add a light plaster to protect the bags from UV damage soon. Here are a few of the latest pics of our progress… Not bad for a [...]
