tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58957536352632673692024-03-20T04:46:23.371-07:00Dance like an elephant: Simple sustainable living in the African bush Sharing our experiences and recipes for living the simple life living alongside wildlife. We live in a community on the edge of Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe. Dancelikeanelephanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15656945687888178535noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5895753635263267369.post-81488127843840562902018-04-23T06:26:00.000-07:002018-04-23T06:30:42.668-07:00Creating the world we want to see<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Our work as the Soft Foot Alliance is going really well, with many initiatives taking off in the less than 2 years we have been operating. Have a look at the facebook page for updates<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;"></span></div>
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The house is a dream come true, to wake up every day in these hand moulded walls feels sublime. The metal termite barrier works and checks are regularly done around the stone stem wall to check for tunnels to knock down. These beautiful photographs capture more of what we see and feel in our home, thanks to Brent for these.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">we still share our home with many creatures who are welcome, such as this wasp nest. The wasps pollinate fruit trees and eat caterpillars so are more than welcome to take some plaster and make their nests.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">the banana circle with its compost pit fed only from grey water is producing bananas.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nyimo (after our favorite indigenous legume) is a new addition to our home full of life, he goes into everything he does with 100% energy, inspiring.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We have 2 hives and love love love the bees! We have been learning about bee keeping as one of our conflict mitigation initiatives is to test out fences made of bee hives throughout the community to stop elephants raiding crops. This has had great results in Kenya and is a win win win, protect pollinators, increase crops, protect people and elephants, income generation from the sale of honey and wax products. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">winnowing amaranth seeds this has been a favorite leafy green throughout the rainy season and the seeds are a healthy grain to eat too. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">banana circle thriving with multiple species around the compost pit and grey water outlet, this microclimate is flourishing, full of worms, banana, pawpaw, chillies, comfrey, ridge gourd (for sponges) </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">preparing materials for compost making, compost compost compost, in-situ beds or adding from piles building the soil is key. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chia seeds, growing all over, bio-carbon has really helped to retain moisture and nutrients in some of the beds.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">rosella seeds fall to the ground and grow every rainy season, no need to replant every year.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">bees pollinating the pumpkins</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">pigeon peas, moringa, sweet potato, chia, millets, cow peas, jelly melons, just a few of the species growing </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Terrible rainy season 2 months of high temperatures and no rain but some of the red maize survived, need to grow more of these as baboons don't like the colour! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">washing hands after 'completing the cycle' on the compost toilet, the water feeds an orange tree</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">more of the creatures living in and around our home, we have seen more and more diversity as we regenerate</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Taro, the root is delicious, and needs a lot of water so grows in places like this next to the dog drinking bowl</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The many herbs growing in pots and wicking pots and beds, using very little water</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">20 litres of chilies collected so far this season</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">the wormery producing, composts and worm tea through the drain, a great fertilizer</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This rocket stove is almost 3 years old, we use it every day and it makes our lives so much easier, using just tiny sticks. More than 100 women have been trained by us to make these stoves and many have gone away to make more to sell.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our new years resolution is to go plastic free by the end of the year, this takes time to plan but creating a plastic free system doesn't have to be so hard. this is a hand cranked oil press and flour mill. Baking bread once or twice a week, using cloth bags to buy any produce anywhere, growing our own natural sponges are just some of the ways we are using to eliminate plastic from our lives and the environment. </td></tr>
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You might have noticed I have slightly changed the blog title as although I'm still working on natural building projects, I will be sharing other aspects of our simple, sustainable and improved lifestyle to inspire you. From simple ways of making life more efficient with as little impact on the planet, to vegetarian and vegan recipes using local ingredients from the african bush.<br />
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Here is a quick catch up on the past couple of years living in <b>The Soft Foot Homestead </b>(thats a hint as to one of the things we have been up to this past year) We have been busy setting up <b>The Soft Foot Alliance </b>using our experience and passion to finding and applying simple ways for humans and wildlife to live side by side.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rocket stoves have taken off after much interest from our neighbors training began in 2016<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">3 workshops so far with between 15-20 women making their own stoves with local clay and manure. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">After a visit from my father he made me a new washing machine, works pretty well!!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">one of the new members of the family 'Futchie' short for 'future kitty'</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The death of Bill Mollison is a huge loss for the world, but his vision and work lives on and we work daily to see that happen.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Insaba has grown into her name, 'ray of sunlight' after one of my favorite lioness's, she looks more and more like a lion!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of the aspects of our work now as THE SOFT FOOT ALLIANCE is finding simple solutions for people and wildife to live side by side. Here Brent and Oliver help to put up a boma that protects livestock from lions, just the fact that they can't see means they won't go inside, plus the boma is mobile so is used to fertilize fields. Just one of the exciting things we have been working on www.softfootalliance.com<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Just one of the fruits from zone 5 the largest zone on our place, preserving the indigenous forest, chanterelle mushrooms</td></tr>
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I've just finished building another oven at a friends photographic safari lodge here in hwange 'Sable Sands' and have loved every minute of it! A beautiful lodge overlooking the dete vlei where some of the best wildlife sightings can be had! </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Another mud lover! </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">I used buffalo dung in the plaster for the oven to use materials that were available in that particular setting. </span></span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: medium;">The location is over looking a waterhole
where wild animals would come to drink while I was busy building, pretty
idiylic location! So dance like an elephant was quite literally dancing
with the elephants! Look in the background of many of the photos on this post to see all the wildlife. </span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> emptying the oven so it dry's out evenly. Th location of the build was very hot, windy and in full sun, so drying was pretty fast.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The pallet of colours available on the sable sands concession, beautiful natural clay, alot of fun testing and selecting.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I chose black to go around the door as it's going to be black from the fire anyway! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Getting some help to add some slices of rosewood on the side as a shelf.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">surrounding the slices with clay so only the polished wood is left visible</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The bottom of the foundation I used lime plaster the rest is all clay and sand.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First firing and pizza night!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Now for the rocket stoves I've been experimenting with, this is the first one a mix of clay and sawdust. I have made 5 different stoves so far testing different mixes. I found that it was hard for most people to access sawdust , so I experimented with alternatives. Donkey and cow dung sieved so that only small particles of straw are left, these burn out and leave small pockets of air that insulate the stove and make it more efficient. I am still testing and firing as much as possible to see if they crack, which shape and size works best etc and will let you know the results. It will mean less need for collecting large quantities of firewood for local women and healthier cooking environment as most people cook indoors with open fires and alot of smoke which is harmful to health.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">small sticks sit on the metal shelf and only the ends burn, cooking is fast and only very little wood and very little smoke.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This J shaped rocket stove was a bit trickier to make the shape is supposed to be even more effective. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The hole at the front is the ash dump which I made a cover for, the hole allowed me to pull the form out.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oly as made some mini rocket stoves</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The tubes are used as the form and pulled out before the stove is dry to avoid cracking.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This larger stove has very thick walls</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I cut and shaped the pot stand.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The first rocket stove works a charm!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We even took one out for cooking on a picnic in the bush, no risk of fires!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bucket shower is up!! makes a huge difference as for the last 8 months we have been throwing water over ourselves. Here you can just see the pulley system in the tree.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We fill the bucket with hot water and add enough cold to make it the right temperature. Around 20 Litres of water showers the 3 of us. I added a hozelock head to the end of the hose pipe, the height of the bucket means there is good pressure and you can select the setting you want! It feels like such luxury, we each get more than 5 minutes shower. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A very simple wormery to breed worms for my chickens and make great compost and worm tea( a natural fertiliser)! </td></tr>
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<br />Dancelikeanelephanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15656945687888178535noreply@blogger.com4Sable Sands-18.650087728696729 27.021739483097917-18.651028228696727 27.020478983097917 -18.64914722869673 27.022999983097918tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5895753635263267369.post-20834772079794116462015-05-16T04:51:00.000-07:002015-05-16T04:54:36.374-07:00Building an Earth oven/ pizza oven! <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
There has been a spot waiting to be filled on the verandah, it was waiting for an Earth oven to be built there. We had a new friend Carrie coming to stay for a week and it seemed the perfect time to build this as she has built 9 ovens now!! You can have a look at her work on Facebook heArth eArth Art https://www.facebook.com/hearthearthart. I wanted to share the knowledge with my neighbours so everyone was invited to come and take part in the process so that those who wanted could go away and build their own. Its a great project for anyone interested in natural building as a way to get to know the materials. I really loved the whole process, kiko Denzer's book 'Build your own earth oven' was our guide and Carries experience meant that she had lots of helpful tips throughout. The only cost in building this oven are the 15 fire bricks used only for the floor of the oven, the rest of the materials are from the earth!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Before Carrie arrived I prepared the base so that we would have enough time to concentrate on the oven. Here I filled the space on the verandah with rubble and gravel and rammed it in place to make a solid base. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I tried my hand at a small dry stone wall for the foundation which is fun to play around fitting the rocks together until they don't move.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Filling up with rubble and gravel as I went up course by course.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The final stage before Carrie arrived, a containment ring to hold the sub-floor insulation, here I used bricks that a neighbour had left over from a building project.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mixing Saw dust and clay for the subfloor insulation</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Glass bottles laid in the sawdust and clay mix, they trap air and stop the heat being lost through the foundation</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dense oven mud, a mix of sand and clay form the base where the firebricks will go. The chicken wire was to help reinforce the wall.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">a thin layer of fine sand forms the bed where the firebricks will go</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">making sure all the bricks are surrounded by the insulation mix to stop heat loss</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Building the form up that will act like a mould on which the oven walls are built. pieces of wood and bricks help to fill out the shape, then damp sand is packed in. The size of this oven is 22.5 inches in diametre(57.15cm) and the best height for the dome is 16 inches (40.64 cm) the peice of wood in the centre is used to guide the right height.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The first layer is 4 fingers wide, a mix of sand and clay, the same mix I used for the sun-dried bricks for the house. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Smoothed down and packed in nicely to make a solid form.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Next layer is the sawdust and clay insulation mix to keep the heat in.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">once the first layer has started to dry out, the door can be cut.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">pulling out all the sand form and newspaper, the dome holds it's shape.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The last layer is the decorative touch. I mixed clay and fine sand with cow manure. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I made the door with insulation mix and dense oven mud supported by mesh inside. The handle is an old railway tie. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The finished oven, tea-lights holders built into the side.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The door is used for baking, once a fire has burnt inside for a couple of hours the fire is removed and baking can begin. The book states it can bake for between 8-12 hours. I didn't have enough flour to bake for that time, but I used it for a few hours and it worked wonderfully. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The first loaf of bread yummy.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We have enjoyed a couple of pizza nights since finishing the oven, the fire burns again for a couple of hours , but then a small fire is kept to one side of the oven whilst cooking the pizzas. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pizza's in, they cook in a few minutes and come out delicious. Here it is placed on a peice of tin-foil to help placing it in and taking it out without burning hands. It's sooo hot in there, we need to make a paddle with a long handle then the pizza will be placed directly on the oven floor. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">blue-cheese, pine nuts and avocado pizza, recreating a memory of great pizza for Gogo.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I have loved the whole building process of the oven, and now all the wonderful times we have had and will have around this oven, sharing good food with friends and family. Thank you Carrie for all your help! I'm now building another oven for friends at a safari lodge close by, will post about this next time. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">After the huge storm at the beginning of february it looked like the rainy season was going to be very wet, Whiskey enjoying a dig in the river bed that I had only ever seen totally dry...but since then the last two months have produced no real rain. Everyones crops have done very badly only those practicing holistic management had good crops, moving bomas full of cattle from one area in a field to another to fertilise and naturally breakup the soil. I am hoping that our village will become interested in practicing holistic management so that we can also improve the fertility of our soils. The plan for this year will be to at least use the chicken tractor for this purpose and a small boma with a few goats. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The wild basil that grows here has a pungent smell and flavour, here i tried making a pesto from it. We also use it in the compost toilet to keep out flies. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">That we enjoy on pancakes for our family tradition of sunday brunch </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">She has been making herself quite at home</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">To the point where the only place she wants to lay is on the sofa! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I planted a second banana circle for the run-off water from the shower, a channel leads the water out to a mulch pit in the centre</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And also feeds a mango tree under the shade cloth</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lying in a hammock under the trees enjoying a new lifestlye </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">pest control permaculture stlye, can you see the chameleon amongst the beans? </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some of the wildlife we are sharing our home with, we have seen a whole lot of snakes this month too the list is growing.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The aim last month was to finish the guest room, here the floor area is dug out</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">and filled with a mica based gravel from close by that compacts well</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">and a thin slab laid on top </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I set up my sewing machine to work from the solar panel and battery and stiched some canvas and mesh to make the walls of the guest room</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">making use of the many bottle tops we keep </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I decided I really needed to see how hard it is to carry water from the village borehole to my home, well its very hard!! My utter lack of balance means I have to keep my arms up holding the container at all times which is very tiring!! My hat goes off to all the ladies who are doing this every day. The importance of water is constanly brought home. We bought a second tank for rainwater collection but since then there has been no rain. I go to the borehole and pump water everyday, it's hard work but a great work out, and not a drop of water is wasted. I hope to build a rainwater collection tank this dry season to be better prepared next year. We are also looking for funds for another village borehole to allow better access to water for everyone and to have a village vegetable garden. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nyanga sunning herself, this past couple of weeks a very special guest came to stay and helped me build an earth oven on the patio, the next post will explain the process from start to finish. I'm currently making the final touches and hopefully pizza night will be next weekend! </td></tr>
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<br />Dancelikeanelephanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15656945687888178535noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5895753635263267369.post-496667829596325332015-02-06T04:56:00.000-08:002015-02-06T04:56:53.751-08:00Natures way We have been in the house for 3 months now, it really is a dream come true. There is still a lot of work to get everything into a working system, but it's getting there. This is our rainy season here and there has been a lot of rain, huge storms. This is where we see the transformation around us where all of nature wakes up! The majority of our homestead is indigenous forest and we are leaving it that way, there are many wonderful fruits in there, and great habitat for birds, insects and reptiles amongst others. We are constantly discovering and learning and love it so much. Many snakes have been around, but we just move them into the woods if they are too close to the house.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These are a treasure to find, termitomyces schimperi, they grow on the termite mounds and have to be picked on the day they burst out of the ground, they are truly delicious!!! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I have been experimenting with different ways of cooking, here I baked a chocolate beetroot cake in the dutch oven on hot coals, worked beautifully.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The paper wasps have been here since I put the roof up over a year ago, it's quite a work of art!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I put mosquito mesh around the verandah just to have a bit of space that isn't shared with all the creatures!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This leaf was carefully chewed by a caterpillar and wrapped in a beautiful coil to make a cocoon </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I tried making a clay fridge with some pots from the local potters, one large pot with a slightly smaller one in the centre, sand is between the two where water is poured. The evaporation keeps the food nice and cool.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We have been trying to get Oly used to walking to school, with all the other children, for us it's an hours walk, hot and sweaty here. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">making tea light holders out of nice pieces of wood</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Boiling water for free!!! It's so fast and it really works well.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yabani and Myself made a chicken tractor, a movable chicken run , so the chickens fertilise the land for a week or two and then move.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I planned around the chickens needs, making sure there are perches, shade, water, a nice high up place to sleep and food. Catching water from a shaded dust bath area. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I bought the chickens from homesteads around us as they will be hardier, I have all females as these will be for eggs only, hopefully they will produce well. They free range for a large part of the day.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The birds eye chillies in the banana circle have been growing so well, I made some chillie sauce, using only the sun!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yesterday was a crazy strong storm, like I have never seen, here it was on the horizon</td></tr>
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It's been a month since we moved in and it feels like this is where we have always been. It's so much a part of us, I feel like it's almost part of my body I have spent so much time putting it all together. It's been quite a journey and now it really begins! living the life we have imagined for so long, there is still a lot of work to be done, setting a system in place for all our needs and finishing off on the building, but we are there, we are in!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I finished the earthbag retaining wall around the house, it could do with one last layer of plaster</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So after having tried out earthbag building on the retaining wall I built a small storeroom using the smae method. A rubble trench foundation then the first course of bags had gravel inside. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The top of the storeroom I used glass bottles to try the technique and to let some light in, there is no recycling or rubbish collection in this area so whatever you can reuse is great. I collected the bottles from our friends who had been saving these up and who run a great lodge close by 'Sable Sands' </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The indigenous fruits are ripe and it's been fun to experiment using them in different recipes. They are such an important source of food and vitamins for everyone in the community especially at this time of year when the food saved from the last season is almost finihsed and new crops have only just been planted. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The 5000litre water tank has been overflowing and is our main source of water, I need to build more storage for all the water so we can collect every drop.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This stunning photograph taken at night is by my talented husband, as are a few of the others in this blog. Here you can see the solar lights working so well. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It's been a while since I last posted, I've been working on the last layer of plaster on the inside and it's taken quite some time to get it just right. It's a lot of fun and satisfying to give it a personal touch and to see it looking almost finished!<br />
I've been learning to share my plaster with the potter wasps of which there are quite a few who all have different methods of making their beautiful little nests for their babies. I kept hearing funny noises and saw that they were collecting balls of my plaster mix and flying off with them( I guess it's a compliment that they like my plaster mix so much!!). They are doing a great job as there have been a lot of caterpillars this season and they have been collecting them to put in their nests for when the young hatch. With all the indigenous fruit trees we have on our place they will also be pollinating these. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I used an old broken mirror to make some small decorations around the house, this dragonfly is being chased by a gecko sculpted in the plaster.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I pressed a small triangular piece of mirror into the plaster to make this pattern around a shelf</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I lay these tiles and used the plaster as mortar which worked very well, clay on clay sticks very well! They are along the back of the kitchen counter</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">placing the reed mats for the ceiling was a bit of a mission, it took 3 of us but we got there in the end</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I have just finished making an earthbag retaining wall around the house, These 50kg bags were filled with the earth that had been dug out to level the area. Just moistened and fill the bags, then ram in place, barbed wire between the layers is like velcro. It's quick but hard on the arms( as to make it quicker as we were only 2 people doing this we filled big buckets to fill the bags rather than small tins as it suggests in the instruction book I used!) </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A lot of friends and neighbours have been coming to see what I am doing, it' good to see interest and some go away saying they are inspired which is what it's all about so it further inspires me. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I will be plastering the bags soon, they can't be left exposed too long otherwise they breakdown when exposed to UV, it feels very solid....</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">..... just in case I got an expert in to give it the final touch</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oliver applying a coat of paint to his room, I chose to make a light yellow paint for the bedrooms, it's a mix of white clay and yellow sand that are found in the village.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It brightens up the room</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">October is our hottest month here, it's been reaching the mid 40's so far but inside the house is the coolest place to be. It's really great to see the combination of orientation to the sun and thermal mass of the walls really works. Sitting on this clay seat at mid day is blissful! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These beautiful mermaid trees came into flower and a carpet of yellow petals led to the house, I am constantly blown away by the beauty of what is around us, and feel so strongly protective over all of this life.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As we are planning to move in the coming weeks, we need a space for our visitors, so Misheck came back and built a traditional pole and thatch structure</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So we are almost ready to move in, there is still a long list of jobs I want to finish first but in the next few weeks we should be moving in! </td></tr>
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I have really enjoyed the whole building process but these final stages are really what have been looking forward too, plastering and sculpting details that make it our home. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As I needed to wait for the walls to dry properly before plastering I carried on with other jobs, like laying the floors first. Here you can see the gravel base which we collected near by and rammed to make the base.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Leaving a space for the built in seat</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Misheck came back to lay the tiles and did a great job. All the tiles are made locally, we put them in the living area and in one bedroom </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Making the clay shelves was really fun, I placed bricks underneath to support the earth mixture whilst they dried. These shelves are above the kitchen counter.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I collected different coloured earth to test plasters and clay paints, there are beautiful colours and it's a lot of fun mixing and testing </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I installed the window frames using expansion bolts which worked very well.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oly helping out with the layers of plaster inside, I have been applying the layers by hand and making any hard edges rounded and soft. I did lots of tests for the best mix, using 4 buckets of pit sand from the plot and 1 of clay worked really well. I have done 2 layers inside so far.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here I am making a base for our bed so that it is raised up and the central area will have space for a large drawer for storage</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Making the base for the built in seat.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I made walls with the adobe bricks and then placed chicken wire between the layers. The spaces underneath the seat are going to be storage spaces.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Layering a clay and sand mixture to make the seat.</td></tr>
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I managed to finish the first layer of plaster on the outside of the house and these extra tiles for a sitting area on the verandah. I'm happy with how the house is coming along, I still need to do some other layers of plaster on the inside and finish with a light yellow clay paint. The outside needs a lime plaster coat and I need to fit the ceiling panels, these are the main jobs to finish off. I am off for a long awaited break and will be back in a few weeks to finish these jobs, and build a store room and retaining wall around the house, then we will be ready to move in!! </div>
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It's been hard work laying bricks day after day, but very satisfying and a great work out!! </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The planks for the counter are an old railway sleeper cut into two planks<br />above is a framework to make a clay shelf</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">working up to making the arches over the windows</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Misheck came to help me make the form work to support the arches as I laid them, we used materials from the bush around us.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It's amazing to see how strong the arches are, as soon as the bricks were in place I removed the form work so the bricks settled properly. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I laid bottles around the arched windows facing in, and these bottles above the kitchen counter and shelves, I plan but some fairy lights inside the bottles.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oly has been great, coming back from the school in the village at lunch time and playing whilst I build everyday until late afternoon. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As the walls got higher the work was harder, a very make shift scaffold that has to be moved around the house</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The lintel above Oly's room is a railway sleeper</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So the brick work is complete, I need the walls to dry throughly before plastering with clay and lime. So the next step are making the floors, building a store room and a whole list of other things!!! </td></tr>
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The small field has flourished this season with the great rains we have been having, the small obstacles of a few creatures that have been trying to eat the crops were resolved using some simple ideas.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">CD's hanging around the sunflowers to deter the birds that might want to eat the seeds.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A make shift scarecrow and a few small solar lights stopped the bush bucks coming to eat at night.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Made small rock piles to attract lizards to come and eat the grasshoppers that were trying to eat some of the crops, it worked so well. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The full crop of groundnuts drying</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Misheck came for a couple of days to lay the locally made Gwayi tiles for the floor of the bathroom,</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">He did an amazing job, the gutter takes the grey water to the fruit trees, the bottles make a small wall between the shower area and the rest of the bathroom</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Enock and Aaron who made the rain water gutters and collection system folded the termite barrier and soldered it together on site</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here's the finished stem wall and termite barrier</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Misheck spent a couple of hours showing me brick laying techniques so now I have started brick laying myself </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The mortar between the bricks is the same mix of sand and clay which I used to make the bricks</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I made rounded bricks for the corners to give it a softer look, I'm starting to get the hang of brick laying now.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So in full swing now watching the walls come to life</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Watching our dream come to life is one of the most exciting and satisfying experiences, the whole plot is becoming a reality. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The banana circle is flourishing, the trees are doing really well growing fast and with new shoots and leaves, all sorts of things are growing out of the compost in the centre. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The beans have done really well, drying them out now to store. The groundnuts should be ready in a few weeks, the sunflowers are out and lots of both wild and planted creeping plants cover the soil.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I gave the materials to make the gutters to some friends locally who do metal work, they made the gutters to size for the house and bathroom. </td></tr>
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For the past couple of months I have mainly been taking a break from the construction to start applying what I have learnt to the land. It's been really exciting to see everything take shape.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The bricks are all finished, the last ones, curved for the corners...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We dug a swale on contour, this catches rainwater and keeps it on the land rather than running off and then planted the seeds below.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">making seed balls with clay and a variety of seeds to throw onto the land.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Both sides of the field are covered with mulch, this keeps the moisture in the ground, this side is leaves...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Planting fruit trees where grey water will be running out of the shower. To protect from grazing animals Yabani made fences from branches as is traditionally done here. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">burying an unglazed clay pot for dry times, the water seeps out slowly.<br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">a wine bottle filled with water and buried seeps water out slowly and directly to the roots. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It's very satisfying to watch everything grow, there will be challenges ahead though, in the next month or so is when the elephants will start entering the fields. For now I will get back to building, I need to finish the stem wall, make a termite barrier and then start laying bricks. </td></tr>
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It's been a long time since I have had the time to sit down and try and write and up load photos of what I have been doing. I am building every single day, it's very very hot but the building process is coming along nicely, so let the photos do the talking...</div>
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So I have finished the foundations and I'm trying to get all the bricks finished before the rains, getting there!! </div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> We spent a weekend a couple of weeks ago building the roof on poles so that the foundations are protected and I can keep building even when it starts to rain, so I am very happy!! </span></h3>
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This amazing contraption allowed us to make holes for the poles without digging, just twist in wet sand and it goes in like a cork screw, a bit more effort but better than digging holes!! </div>
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Collecting water at the village borehole, the hand pump is hard work! </div>
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The roof coming up</div>
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Yabani making a quick ladder from some sticks, amazing</div>
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I couldn't have done this without the help of my husband Brent, Roy, Misheck and Yabani, it was real team-work and it came together beautifully, thanks so much!! </div>
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The structure I have been building in cob I have left for now, the termites have gone after removing the black plastic from the walls. I have left this structure for now and still plan to use it, either finish building it as it is or have half walls with a pole roof structure over it. We will see maybe next year what to do with it.<br />
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So I have levelled the ground, dug the trench and have been building the stone foundation for a small two roomed structure to have a place to stay as soon as possible. I am making sun-dried mud bricks with no straw. I have been playing around with the mix as it is not as strong with no straw. I have found that after all that, termite mound clay is way better than the clay I have been using in the cob! I didn't want to do this as I didn't like the idea of destroying a termites home. It seems that as long as you don't take away everything, leaving the colony and the queen, they are fine and they rebuild. I didn't decide to use this because of vengeance, but the smooth nature of the clay that requires little soaking shows why people have been using this as a building material for so long here.<br />
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The fact that natural building techniques are being replaced more and more with modern materials which are less comfortable, and so much more expensive both financially and for the environment, comes a lot from the idea that it is a poor peoples building technique. So the style of the house I am building now, is using similar techniques to the traditional method, but with the style of house that is considered more modern.<br />
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I have had to make a lot of test bricks to see what is the strongest, I have had to use more sand to stop the clay from cracking, which is a common problem with this clay. I have found the best mix to be 1 1/2 clay, 2 pit sand straight from the ground below, and 1 1/2 river sand.<br />
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Another lesson learnt is to accept some help, so yabani has been coming to help me a few mornings a week, which definitely helps things move faster!<br />
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I will post more recent photos soon, I leave you with a few photos of an amazing community I visited with my family a few months ago. This is a whole group of villages in a communal area in the chimanimani mountains, who have been practising permaculture for 20 years!! It's truly inspiring, Julius Piti showed us around and I was totally taken aback to see how successful this was, flourishing. Something to aspire too!! Of course being at the base of a mountain range is not the same as being in the Kalahari sands, but it's even more of a challenge!!<br />
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promised I am posting about what I have been doing the past few months since
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I think
an important thing to mention is that what I am doing is not just about
building a house. I
have been focusing this blog on the process of building, sometimes it’s
necessary to go a bit deeper though…So no I’m not just building a house, I’m
building a lifestyle that is based on the ethics and principles of
permaculture. When I first started down this path I wasn’t sure if I should
first do a natural building course or a permaculture design course. I thought
having a home was the first step so I did the building course first. I have
just been to South Africa to do the full permaculture design course, and I
really think I should have done that first!! <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><i>“Permaculture
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is a system of assembling conceptual, material, and strategic components in a
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The course was amazing, the teachers Tahir Cooper and Alex
Kruger where truly inspirational. As were the course participants. I had read a lot about permaculture and done an introduction to permaculture course but I don’t think I really understood
it until now. I think if I had done this first I would
have really chosen the most appropriate natural building method for this area
rather than just what I loved the most!! Doing the course in a place that demonstrates a community of people living together and meeting their needs, without harming their environment, even better, healing their environment, is truly the best teaching method. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Permaculture in it’s most basic form is about sharing so
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environment be the same in 7 generations if I….. (fill in the blank)? I have
found it a real wake up call!! If every decision we make has an underlying
universal ethics of people care, earth care and fair share, we will always be
making the right decision!! It means taking action now, and it’s not about
paying off carbon credits or giving 10 dollars to WWF and thinking this is all
we have to do to secure a bright future for the world. The world we are wilfully destroying, the world which we depend
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course, it’s not about doom and gloom, but about solutions. In many ways yes
it’s easier to move towards a simpler life where I am, but it is also one of
the most difficult. The challenges that face
us in our context here are huge, no water, sandy soil which is hard to grow
food in, the rainy season only lasted 2 and a half months this year, climate
change is only going to make this worse, Elephants and other animals roam in
the area where people grow food. A huge mine is
now underway just down the road which will destroy the environment and could seriously affect the water in the aquifer in
this area that both people and wildlife depend on. And for what? so we can continue to have an unlimited source of electricity, dependent on non-renewable resources. Would this happen if an ethical
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">To go back to some decisions I made along the building process, I opted to not put in a metal termite barrier, as if cob was to work in this area, it had to have as little external costs as possible, for others to be able to try this technique. Also the environmental cost of metal is high. I took every precaution with wood in the building, there was to be no wood directly in contact with the ground. The window frames and doors are a hard wood that the termites would find hard to eat. Yet the grass straw became appealing to the termites. I took some risks, and maybe with more precautions such as using the metal termite barrier this would be enough to stop them getting into the cob. </span></td></tr>
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There are several reasons why the termites would have been attracted to the walls, the black plastic covering the walls during the rains didn't allow the walls to breath so a dark damp environment is what the termites love most!! The straw I used was not real 'straw' as wheat(or other cereals that can be used for straw) is not grown in this area it made no ecological sense to bring it in from the other side of the country. So I improvised, tried out something different, using grass that was cut after it had dried out. There are other people who have built with cob in Africa with no problem, this doesn't mean it isn't possible here. In our area in particular though we have every kind of termite under the sun!! Termites that eat wet wood, dry wood, grass, the bark off of living trees etc etc!!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Using a slasher to cut grass on the road</td></tr>
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Cob was my first love in my natural building discovery, and I was a little bit blinded, I wanted to build with cob no matter what, as I love the process so much, but it may not be the most appropriate natural building technique for this area. So this does not in any way mean that it is the end of my mud dancing story, absolutely not!! I have had many other adventures these past few months that have helped me to see the way forward.(I will write another post soon about this) I think it is important for me to write about the problems I have faced, even if it's hard so that others can learn from my mistakes or the risks that I was willing to take in my journey towards a life in sync with the earth beneath my feet.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Fruits of the rainy season</b>I've been busy making jams, chutneys and pickles from both indigenous and exotic fruits that fill the trees in this area<br />during the rains.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These mushrooms can grow to a metre in diameter and they are delicious!! </td></tr>
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The rainy season is in full swing, with huge storms most days, I've been unable to build as much the past few weeks because of this. I have covered the walls to protect them from the rain as there is no roof to do this yet. There should be breaks in the rain that will allow me to continue building, this season has been different every year since I've lived here, so it's hard to know how the coming months will be. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I had to protect the walls with plastic during the storms, the trees have all their leaves now, the bush is thick and full of life! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">rain collected from the shed roof after a storm</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We have started to buy a few fence poles at a time, this is mainly to keep livestock out of areas where we will be growing crops. It won't stop elephants or lions, this we will tackle at a later date, possibly using chilli fence or bee-hive fence.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Friends coming for a holiday, end up doing some hard work!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Filling up the clay in the soaking bins</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It's great to have some shade again where the cob mixing goes on!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The pit on the plot where the majority of the sand in the mix comes from is getting pretty deep, this will be a made into a water cistern to collect rainwater at a later date</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">When the weather has been clear, I've been building up the side of the house that will have a higher floor level, so that the remaining window frames can be placed.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I will be using glass bottles in the walls once the walls are higher, this is commonly done in cob building, as decorative windows, often the bottles are left as they are with the neck on the outside wall. Having the narrow neck on one side means that less light will get through, in Becky Bee's book she suggest placing a jar over the neck. I was thinking of cutting one bottle to have a perfect fit and size for the wall thickness to fit over another bottle. So I looked up ways of cutting bottles with a minimum amount of tools and found a method of using a piece of string soaked in nail polish remover that is tied around the bottle, then burned, then dunked into cold water. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It hasn't been working as well as it said on the internet!! The cut is not clean, when it does break!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is what I'm aiming at so that the circular ends are on both exterior and interior walls to allow more light through. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our friends came with materials to make solar cookers, so we tried making a couple of designs which have yet to be tested properly. </td></tr>
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It's starting to look like a house, I've placed 4 window frames, so it's getting very exciting. As the house is on a slope there are going to be two different floor levels, it's important that the finished floor level will be above ground level.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My husband had a week off work and joined me, he also fell in love with cob!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First window frame, yeahy, so exciting!! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">There are 3 round window frames for the living room which will be placed diagonally so the first one is in place</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Brent made me a great movable scaffolding as on one side of the house the walls are getting too high for me</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">look closely at the base of the stump, a beautiful Puff Adder, they are very dangerous but as with anything only if you disturb them! A visitor wanted to kill it but I explained how this is also the snakes home, it's got it's role to play! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The smell of the first rains on the dry baked earth here is one of the best, but I didn't enjoy it for long as a huge storm came along, it's a month earlier than anticipated, so I will see if this slows down the building.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It was really a heavy storm, I kept the walls covered, but the material is not very waterproof, will have to get something else until I get the roof up. The walls did well though, no damage. </td></tr>
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so it's hard work but visits from friends and neighbours who want to help has
made such a difference, thanks everyone!! There has been some excitement, one
day I was building alone and a herd of elephants came running towards me, at
2pm it was very unexpected to see these elephants in the communal lands, I had
to run for cover so didn't get any pictures!</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">so the walls are coming up, there will be two floor levels, on the one side I am levelling the wall to fit the arched window frames. </td></tr>
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So heres an update of whats been happening over the last few weeks, I've been building almost everyday and it's coming along.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The stem wall is complete, it is high enough all the way around to protect the bottom of the cob walls </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">putting up the frame for the compost toilet, we followed a very basic bucket design for the toilet. Everything is collected in the bin and covered with saw dust, once it is full this is emptied into a compost pile and left for 1 year once it is full.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here is the finished toilet, with a basic wooden frame built over the bin and toilet seat attached, thanks to my husband for this!! Its amazing, there is no smell, the saw dust takes care of that, when water is so precious and scarce it's really great to know that we will become part of the natural cycle rather than making this resource into a waste!! </td></tr>
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The next step was to position the wooden boxes where the door frames will later be attached<br />
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Having first banged lots of nails and blocks for the cob to grip to<br />
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Both door frames are up, my husband helped as this is not a one person job, after a few accidents, we managed to get them firmly into place, supported by temporary planks. The top soil, has been removed from the inside of the house so that the layers of the floor can be built up later. <br />
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In preparation for the cob I have been pounding some of the clay as there are large very dry pieces that don't become wet even if it is soaked for a long time<br />
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The top of the stem wall is not flat this helps the cob to grip </div>
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Yeahhy, cobbing has begun, it's great to take off my boots and to be stomping around bare foot!!</div>
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Friends are starting to come and see what cobbing is all about</div>
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I have been covering the cob to slow down the drying as it is getting very hot</div>
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Dancelikeanelephanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15656945687888178535noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5895753635263267369.post-48515546357907545342012-07-20T06:49:00.002-07:002012-08-20T06:53:46.768-07:00Making a plan!!!This past week my car was broken down, and to get a new part is no simple affair here, I had to wait for someone who could get it 300kms away. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A baboon enjoying my lifeless car</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I did manage to get to the plot on several days getting lifts from friends, so the stem wall has been creeping up.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">on one day I decided to try and ride to the plot, bearing in mind I haven't ridden a bike in 12 years at least, and this is in a wildlife area, where you can bump into elephants or lions amongst others, I had a great time, was exhausted though and took too long to actually get any building done!! <br />
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Watching a lioness from the car </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">one of the many elephants around at the moment</td></tr>
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So after a week of 'making a plan' I'm back working on the plot every day, I'm setting up a temporary compost toilet and shower area so we can camp more often and get moving!!</div>
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one of the many wonderful animals we see in our garden at our current home, a male bushbuck enjoys the refreshing taste of my mint growing by the kitchen. </td></tr>
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<br />Dancelikeanelephanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15656945687888178535noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5895753635263267369.post-37793449766623499862012-06-29T06:35:00.002-07:002012-06-29T06:35:57.303-07:00Building up the stem wallI have been building up the stone work around one side of the house as it wasn't high enough above ground level. I spent time selecting rocks, mixing the the mortar, which is not as fun as the cob mixing as lime is very harmful to the skin I have to wear gum boots (or wellies depending where you are from!) another week or so to finish this. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">mixing the mortar with wellie boots otherwise the lime damages the skin</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">a beautiful pod mahogany on the plot the future site of the dream tree house!!</td></tr>
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<br />Dancelikeanelephanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15656945687888178535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5895753635263267369.post-62034828688372338392012-06-12T02:21:00.000-07:002012-06-12T02:45:18.922-07:00Foundations finished yeahhy!So the foundations are complete, they look beautiful and strong. The one thing which I found with using a local builder was to explain what I am actually doing. The idea of not using any bricks seems hard for everyone to get their head around. I have explained time after time that there are no bricks, cob will be added wet to the stem wall to make a continuous monolithic structure. Misheck has done an amazing job, but in his mind I am still laying bricks so the walls must be level at this point all the way around. This has left a small section of the wall without a stem wall coming above ground level as the site is slightly slanted. It's not a problem as I will do this last section myself. It's important that the bottom of the cob wall is protected from rain and moisture. The last thing to do is to then fill in the soil around the foundation and level off the floor area before I can start cobbing. Although there is a natural building tradition in zimbabwe, even building with mud, brick moulds are made either from wood or paint tins and then either fired or sun dried. The structures are not load bearing as cob is and so poles are used in the ground to support the roof structure. This is a problem with termites unless very good hardwood such as mopane or acacia are available, which in our case is not. The huts are beautiful and comfortable but largely need alot of maintenance. People are using more modern expensive materials if they can, I'm hoping that cob if it works well in this climate that it can offer a comfortable, durable, inexpensive and environmentally friendly alternative, we will see!!<br />
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I have been back and forth on the decision to use a moisture barrier or a temite barrier at this stage. I want the house to be made of materials that are accessable to local communites if they want to do a similar project. I also don't want to use toxic materials. Although there can be big storms in the rainy season drainage on the site is very good, so I don't think moisture coming up from the foundations will be a problem. I'm thinking against using tar or a damp proof course because of this. As for termites my understanding of the barrier system is that is won't stop them it will just slow them down and make the tunnels visible, As the foundations are so deep and strong I think the tunnels would be visible without one, plus the fact that there is no wood directly in the ground. If anyone thinks otherwise please let me know what you think!?Dancelikeanelephanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15656945687888178535noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5895753635263267369.post-77872121447729165392012-06-06T03:13:00.000-07:002012-06-06T03:13:07.726-07:00Foundations coming up and up!The foundations have come up to ground level from one meter deep! A lot of hard work, Misheck and Abel have been doing a great job. The stone work is coming above ground level now to make the stem wall, which will be between 30cm and 50cm above ground level, this protects the cob walls from damp and any splash back from rain coming off the roof.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">How the foundations looked yesterday...not long before I can start with the mud dancing!!! </td></tr>
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