You can also check out the Natural Building Workshop opportunities our friends Ziggy & April at The Year of Mud are offering nearby. Along with our friend Jacob Graber, they were a huge part of the design, planning & first 2 years of construction of The Chanterelle Shack, and we cannot sing their praises enough!
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| Installing the Chanterelle Shack's earthen sub-floor -- basically a 3-inch thick layer of cob -- during a work party
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The cob bench built here during The Year of Mud's Cob Building Workshop a few years ago.
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The "Chanterelle Shack”, our little hand-built* straw bale house; featuring rubble trench (gravel) foundation, earthbag stemwall, earthen floor, earthen plaster (inside & out), passive solar design, rainwater catchment, 12-volt solar system, rocket mass heater (w/heated bench), local straw, and framed & finished almost entirely with lumber harvested from our forest! Check out this great photo album our friend Ziggy put together documenting the construction. And here is a cool video tour that Ziggy's partner April did with a friend of theirs a few years ago.
*And there have been countless hands participating in this project...we've now hosted 4 Natural Building Workshops & at least 8 work parties to share the process with our greater community. We guestimate well over 100 folks have lent their energies to our new home. THANK YOU everybody for helping us realize our dream!! |
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The "cabin stove" rocket mass heater that Mark Mazziotti helped us build as part of our Natural Building workshop a few years ago. Check out Mark's awesome photo album documenting its construction here
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The “Rocket Range” Mark helped us build during our August '18 NB workshop. Click here to see more photos from that project.
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Check out this blog to see the awesome outdoor kitchen project that inspired what we built on the Chanterelle Shack's back porch last summer!
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Below is a version of the Cabin Stove (designed by Max Edleson) similar to the one Mark Mazziotti helped us build here; instead of the brick bench pictured, we made the attached heated bench out of cob.
Photos courtesy of Norbert Senf - for more on this version, click here.
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| To learn more about Rocket Mass Heaters, check out these websites: |
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Permaculture and Homesteading Goofeballs
FireSpeaking
Rocket Mass Heaters
Rocket Mass Heaters Basics video |
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Michael Smith video
Claylin video
Time-Lapse Video |