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Our crew got in and we set up camp, it looks pretty awesome with the hill and the sunset in the background. These first volunteers knew they were signing up for whatever unknowns it would take to get us started, and it's a good thing because per the land agreement with TLE(Tribal Land Enterprise) we have to have a fence around the perimeter of the land. Sooo... we've been working tirelessly all week digging fenceposts and tamping and pulling barbed wire, needless to say that we've been warming up our muscles in just the right spots for some earthbag building. We're nearly done and somehow in even higher spirits, especially since we plan to break ground on our first twelve foot dome in just a few days.
We still made some time to get some real work done, we made our first test tamper and with a little adjustment on our cement/sand mix we're set up to crank out a few more. There's some crazy sounding birds that wake us up every morning and then one night we saw this epic space train of stars or spirits or ufos or as it turns out probably just Elon Musk, but either way it was pretty cool to see in these wide open skies!
For further information on earthbag building just do a simple google search, there’s a vast catalog of resources available from an active online community. Our favorite website for this kind of stuff is www.earthbagbuilding.com, our favorite YouTube channel is My Little Homestead, and here’s a beautiful photo gallery of another earthbag village concept.
Or if that’s too much homework for you, then you can check out the fictional novel Liberation’s Garden, a free download featuring earthbags, activism, and life on the reservation. Authored by one of our core members, it holds a vision for the future as we take the first steps toward bringing that vision to life.
