If you're interested in sustainable building, then you're going to love this video! In this From Scratch: Mud Barn Construction Revealed, we'll show you how to build an off-grid mud barn using only natural materials. This building project is perfect for anyone interested in sustainable building practices and ecological design.
We'll show you how to build the barn, from start to finish, and explain all the tricks and tips involved. If you're looking to learn more about permaculture and off-grid sustainable building, then this video is for you!
This barn was built in community over 2 different group gatherings.
We implemented 3 different natural building modalities:
Cob, Earth Bag & Light Clay Straw.
This barn is for our juvenile alpacas!
We are a large off grid alpaca farm in Northern Az. We practice land stewardship & permaculture design!
The clay we harvested from digging our pond. And the sand was harvested from a nearby seasonal stream bed.
We used rainwater that we harvested from our roof for the water.
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We plan to host more natural building events in the future!
Check out our socials:
@starflower_eco_farm
@prema.alpacas
@samadhi.fleece.designs
Check out Chris's ig (natural building teacher)
& the Los Angelas Permaculture Community:
@indigenousfutures
@losangelaspermaculture
Contact for collabs:
Nicole@StarflowerEcofarm.com
Mailing Address:
Dave & Nicole Wiegman
PO Box 1683
Flagstaff AZ 86002
Donations:
via Venmo
@starflower_eco_farm
Thank you!!
Video Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:40 Building the roof structure
01:54 Gathering raw materials from the land
04:38 Our natural building teacher arrives & training begins
05:05 Training interrupted by alpaca baby being born
05:26 Natural Building Training begins again!
05:52 Two different foundations
06:15 3 different natural building modalities
06:45 Mixing cob with our feet
08:05 Light Clay Straw
11:16 The 2nd gathering begins
11:30 Harvesting clay from pond
13:17 Mixing cob w/ Chris our teacher
13:57 Light Clay Straw
16:09 Chris makes a soil sifter for plaster
17:19 Community members mixing cob
18:54 Starting the art on the cob wall
19:34 Mixing plaster
21:02 Nightly community gathering, open fire cooking
22:19 The art
22:47 The artistic design explained
23:03 The ancient symbols
25:23 Multi generational impact
29:49 the finished barn and cob art