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Manual de Construccion en Tierra

Por Gernot Minke

Escrito en respuesta a un aumento en todo el mundo gran interés en la construcción con tierra, esta manual trata sobre la tierra como un edificio material, y proporciona un estudio de la totalidad de su aplicaciones y técnicas de construcción,incluyendo los datos físicos relevantes,…

English/Español/日本語

When we began this community the vast majority of members spoke English. Recently more Japanese and Spanish speaking people have joined. So, Konomi and I, are going to post all of our blogs in the three languages.  All members are free to post in their preferred language. I have just added a forum to…

The earth we've dug out to create the pit style greenhouse has been placed into earthbags and used to create a path to walk on and a the new pond to feed the plants. In the process we have created a new comfort zone, where we will make a bench, plant roses and have a nice picnic view zone.

This large mound of earth in the corner contains good soil that drains well and that we hope is suitable for cantaloupes and watermelons, a crop, up until now, not grown…

We`ve finally got around to finishing the interior of the house. And I`ve decided to take a siesta! A great addition has been the very comfortable queen sized futon. Walls have been lined with Tepa, a local wood, and jute, which allows the earthbag walls to continue to breathe, which makes the air…

I have been busy making the furniture for our cabin. Here is a bench/storage cupboard. It`s very solid, holds a lot of food…

Felix Vargas, who lives up in the north of Chile, where it is much warmer and drier, is building a large earthbag structure and he`s doing a very impressive job, thanks to the help of more than one or two…

A month or so ago I entered Wiser Earth's, Earth Day Living contest, and two days ago I got a message to say that we had been chosen as the winners, for our work here in Patagonia to create a sustainable lifestyle, through our home and gardens.…

It's taken some time, but the turf wall I've been building almost completely surrounds the house and gardens. I just need to make a couple of gates and we'll be able to get the ducks. I have already begun planting local bushes, Chilco, that have lovely red and purple flowers, on top of the new wall. This should look very beautiful.

The photo #2 shows the new terraces I've created while getting the turf for the wall. We'll plant them more…

At the moment we have three places where we are planting and harvesting. The North garden which features, ten terraces and two ponds, with just three terraces planted at this moment, the south garden, where our earthbag polytunnel and future duck pond are located, and the North West garden, which is experimental,  but doing very well and features, Chia, linseed, mustard, along with more regular crops like peas, carrots, radishes and beans... coastal quinoa which we hoped…

Last spring, I have planted more than 30 types of vegetables and herbs in our permaculture garden, and now we are harvesting plenty of vegetable, all organic. Our garden did very well and amazed all the visitors. (Here in Southern Hemisphere, it's autumn in March)

I learned how to make…

We`ve begun the work on our new guest cabin, located in a secluded and well sheltered spot on our land. Joining us for…

February 27th was the Occupy Our Food Supply Global Event to highlight the need for people take control of their own food supply by going organic and discouraging the use of Genetically Modified Crops and seeds. We joined in by beginning a new greenhouse, which will be built in the Walipini style that…

After a fabulous festive Christmas in Frutillar, with sophistiocated food galore, we are back home and loving the…

Soon we'll be building a cabin for our guests, with friends, Megan and Happy. It will be a hybrid earthbag foundation, wood framed structure in a secluded part of our garden, invisible from the road and invisible from us. Should take around a month to get it to a condition good enough for them to move in while they search the region for a piece of land.

Happy's a carpenter with plenty of back woods experience, so I'm looking forward to what we'll come up and included in the…

The north side of our garden is now entirely walled in with 100 meters of turf and a gate which is wide enough to…

There is no separation between us, our house, our garden, our land, the surrounding nature and view now we connecting…

Today is Konomi's birthday and we're celebrating with the arrival of Pepper, a four month old Ewe.…

Spring is has come to Patagonia and less than six weeks after Konomi sewed the first seeds, we're dining on large radishes. And…

I'm now the Patagonian correspondent for I Love Chile, the nations premiere English language media resource. And I have just written this article http://ilovechile.cl/2011/11/04/living-dream-part-1-buying-land-patagonia/37279 

I think you'll enjoy it, as though you have watched us build our house through this community, we've never really told the story as to how we actually came to be here…

One morning, I noticed a hawk flying very low around our house. Looking out t hrough the window, I could see him circling around, then next thing you know, he landed just in front of me, on the other side of the glass, 50cm away, looking curiously into the window. I picked up our…