by admin | Mar 27, 2013 | Uncategorized
Workshops are painful. Workshops are hard. The planning, prepping, organizing, moving heavy materials, lugging salvaged cinder blocks from one place to another, shoveling sand and clay, teaching and talking nonstop for 2 days, running from tarp to tarp….and...
by admin | Mar 6, 2013 | Uncategorized
This is an except from the book, ‘Going Green, With The International Building Code’ written by Scott Caufield. He’s a Building Inspector who wrote this book as a guide to using the IRC in a ‘green’ kind of way. At the end of his book,...
by admin | Mar 3, 2013 | Uncategorized
This year’s Charlie Mag edition of ‘Charleston’s 50 Most Progressive 2013’ has recognized the Dirt Queen and Natural Building!!! It’s exciting to see South Carolina embracing Natural Building!!!
by admin | Feb 7, 2013 | Uncategorized
Last year, I went to Sabana Grande, Nicaragua to take part in a 2 week Natural Building workshop led by Liz Johndrow of Earthen Endeavors. We lived and worked in a very small, rural village in northern Nicaragua. In the workshop we worked with the women of the...
by admin | Nov 26, 2012 | Uncategorized
Cross, SC (1 hr. from Charleston) April Magill, Root Down Designs + Elder Carlie Towne, Gullah/Geechee Angel Network & Elder in the Gullah/Geechee Nation December 2011 Crossing Cultures & Creating Community Through Natural Building Thank you...