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One of our volunteers, Hugo, has helped us finish our solar oven. Finally! The solar oven is made out of plywood and mirrors. The angle of the box and the mirrors direct the heat energy of the sun into the box, which is well insulated. The result is an oven that bakes cakes, breads, and […] We have started building our first cob hut. Cob is a mixture of clay, dirt, pine straw, sawdust and a bit of water. We get sawdust from a woodmill in a pueblo nearby, and the clay, dirt and pine straw come from the Bosque. Cob is much like formed adobe. We mix the ingredients together […]
As part of our push to have more well-insulated huts available for visitors, we have begun making adobe bricks. We have enough bricks now to complete a small hut! Our huts will be very basic. Well insulated walls, earth or metal roofs, and windows to take advantage of passive solar. We will […] We are beginning to receive many applications for our volunteer program! You can read about our volunteer program here. While we have hosted volunteers before, this is our first big push to recruit long-term WWOOFers and other volunteers to come help us out with gardening and natural building. This June we’ve had two wonderful volunteers: […] |