How Sustainable!

How Sustainable!

How Sustainable! 4608 3456 Strawbale Studio

Blog by Intern Eben Gardener for the week of MAY 6, 2019
Hello Strawbalers! And welcome back to another post from Strawbale Studio. It has been a while since we have updated our page. Stay tuned! We do intend on posting more frequently to get back in touch with the wonderful community of Earth-loving tree huggers who are looking to learn more about our naturally-built buildings – and our radical style of simplicity.

To get back in the groove of things, we’ve created a straightforward template that lists a bit of what we have been up to as of late. Each heading and subheading has so much excitement packed within ~ and our hope is that you may see something that compels you to subscribe to our email list – or even to try to get involved yourself!

Below, We’ve briefly organized our actions to compact what all went on. More goodness awaits us outdoors. See you there!

Natural Building Hands-on: Earth base plaster class. How to mix, application to West Wall: above door, under eaves of W and North side, Tree sculpture. Mix and shape a cob brick. Finish Plaster demo and hands-on, on a cob brick. Repair ID cabin bench crack with plaster. 

Class Presentation: Foundations Class in Strawbale Studio with woodstove fire – focus on Rubble Trench Foundation.  Earth Plaster, Cob, Finish Plaster.

Sustainable Living Skills:  Permaculture Meetup – Planning a Garden presentation.  Fiddle Head Fern, Harvest, cook and freeze. Lots of Sour Dough Wraps.   
Evening Program: Sharing. Whittling.

Enrichment: Permaculture Meetup potluck & networking. Travel with Michael Eslermann. Eben, reading NB book, designing cabin – sketch & cob model of future hut. Lena, shares her design with DB. Jim to fathers funeral in New Orleans. Db to Yoga, Lena arrives. 

Worktrade: Lena & Eben Mulch & Stake cages  – Coppice Agro-Forest.  Eben: move wood,  leave from courtyard, gutter clean, porch.  DB  Posting for Memorial Day weekend/ Lena  DB research Milk Paint for Elkhart project.  UNFI order in.  MSU Bench: db support Steve,  phone call materials list. Help next week.