Hi Jon, My Thai wife and I have just purchased 1 rai of ex cow farm land in Mae On district CM, We would like to use the land as a teaching aid for the locals to learn about self sustainability as my wife is very interested in this area and has already completed several courses. We are wondering if you will be able to help us in designing a layout for the land, maybe you can use this as a teaching opportunity for others as well. Let me know if you are interested and I can give you my wife's contact details so you can discuss possibilities with her. Love your videos and look forward to meeting you in person hopefully.
It is good idea to be a learning center for local people. The best way is learning from many people and apply to make it fit with the land and her style. She will be herself.
Looks fun and simple to make. What are the properties of these bricks, are they strong, do they have good insulation or require special consideration when building?
Hello Jon. Thank you for you educational videos. I have been making adobe bricks on my own in Panama. I have termites in the ground on my land and I am worried that they live in my bricks and will eat the rice husk inside. What should I do? Thank you.
Hi Jon, I bought your “Living With Earth” book and I love it! I had a question though, on our property we have sandy gravel soil with little clay. Should I skip using the straw because I little clay? Ty much!
We use all kind of soil even top soil. We can build new top soil easily . Don't feel bad to use top soil and our top soil did not go away from our land. It is in our house when we take it down we can grow things as normal.
Most of the soil can be used for making bricks. If the soil has too much clay it will crack and not strong. If the soil has too much sand it will crumble easily. Any soil in between high clay and sand is good.