This weekend was the beginning of an apprenticeship I am doing with Villa Sobrante. They are retrofitting their house in El Sobrante with natural building techniques and today we worked on making adobe bricks. We combined a clay slip (clay soil mixed with water until it resembles the consistency of a melted milkshake), sawdust and straw to make lightweight adobe bricks that will provide insulation in the floor of a small structure on site. Jill and I began the day by chipping straw. After we all worked on getting to know the consistency of our adobe mix, I spent a good couple of hours pick-axing and digging away to carve a place for the foundation.
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