we sort of created a Gary permaculture
farm my partner and I just as a project
to start developing community and to
restore this really for the desert style
and we've been studying natural building
and permaculture for two or three years
now and we traveled all over the world
and we did it all in various places this
is myself and my partner Jesse and
Campbell who also helped us start it up
and Jesse said that he had this family
land and that no one was using it and so
we decided to start bringing back what
we had learnt and all other people's
properties through wolfing and courses
and bring it back here to actually apply
it and do it because it's awesome doing
it everywhere else but it's really good
to start like doing it under with your
own design and the way that you want to
do things so we've got the super adobe
house which is a 16 square meter dome
and it's used polypropylene woven
continuous bags that are filled with
like a mud brick earth mix and compacted
and they form a Lancet dome which is
like a really strong shape in nature
and then the other building is a Cobb
house and that's used a reciprocal fame
roof on a stringy back structure and
then all the Bluestone like everything
that we use was recycled or found from
tips and we want to have that operable
skylight at the top as well and yeah and
then what's behind us is this big
community center which was and it's like
the idea is just replaced everyone to
hang out and when we were running
courses for everyone to sit under cover
and the big kitchen and that's all made
pretty much all recycled or free and
yeah we just put it together with about
20 friends over a few weeks and we got
to give credit to our amazing carpenter
friends we had some beautiful friends
who came to help us out and they had all
the skills to put it up so quickly and
so professionally we actually started
with just these pallet zigzag shape and
yeah we made the form around the trees
and then it just sort of grew off that
they like well let's put shelves in it
because the pallets have natural little
bits that you can put shelves in so we
were like okay we'll start making our
tool area and our kitchen area in it and
then screwed milk crates out for the
nursery in it and just all these things
had to slot together which is really
cool and then naturally because we had
made a kitchen there and people just
camping around it we thought we just sat
the communal space and it just started
with a fire in the ground and then we
started sort of building around it and
they were like now we need a roof over
it and we just kept going and we
experimented with different building
techniques on that as practice for the
houses that we're building I think like
one of the girls said yesterday just
she's like oh this is so good because
I've been in office all week sitting at
a desk and um I think the nature of it
is what we see with a lot of our
building workshops and usually people
actually pay to come along to them and I
think it's just that idea of like um
things that we've lost its traditional
where people need help each other build
your house if you lived in community or
the way that we used to live more
tribally people move around and help
each other and now it's just really
bizarre that we're not connect
to our own buildings in our own way of
life our own food our own medicine and
so it's really empowering to take that
back into your own hands and it's
amazing like the range of Ages of people
that we see here as well like it's not
just everyone who wants to build their
own houses everyone who just wants to be
a part of community and part of learning
more practical skills and yeah so I
think people really enjoy it just being
part of a group environment and actually
doing something really practical getting
up and moving around and getting muddy
and yeah getting back to the basic stuff
eating good food and hang out with
awesome people
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