🏠🔨👛 Purchase bags for your earthbag home here: TerraformTogether.org/Bags
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UPDATES:
After building this traditional earthbag root cellar, we learned about a new building technique called HyperAdobe. It gives similar results, but with WAY less work and is more structurally sound.
If you're interested in building with earthbag, be sure to go check out our Hyperadobe Test Home series. • Building An Affordable...
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One of the first major projects we undertook when we moved onto our property was building out a root cellar for our community. This would provide a temperature-controlled environment for produce and food for our community.
The project took over a year to totally complete, was done with entirely volunteer labor, and included around 1,400 hand-sifited, packed, and tamped bags.
The total budget for the project was around $2,000.
We learned so much from this build and this was the first step in dialing in our earthbag building technique.
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If you are interested in what we are doing please check out TerraformTogether.org.
If you want to come build with us, our Eco-Residency application can be found at:
TerraformTogether.org/eco-residency-application/
Donate at:
TerraformTogether.org/donation/
We are a 501C3 non-profit and your support goes to help run our eco-residency program where we teach others to live off-grid and live more sustainably. Also, be sure to follow us on Facebook and Instagram to see what current projects we are up to.
We are @TerraformTogether on Facebook and Instagram. Those are great places to follow if you want to see our current projects.
A special thanks to Connor Correll for providing the intro music for this episode. You can check out his work here: / connorcorrellmusic
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20 янв 2024
