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I plan to build a modest house in the coming year and I've settled on rammed earth as the best method for my particular needs. Although it's become a bit trendy (and expensive!) in recent years, with the increasing fame of architects like Rick Joy and Eddie Jones, rammed earth remains a basic building technique - one that's been around at least since Pliny was spying on Hannibal. If it's good enough for the Great Wall of China, it's good enough for me.
In order to make the process affordable, I'll have to do a fair portion of the work myself, so I decided to book the workshop-cum-labor-camp in Arizona. As much as I looked forward to learning about rammed earth, I was not happy, to be hurrying off to Arizona. Locavorism was on my mind as we readied this year's Devour (see page 19). I've become increasingly intolerant of generic food that arrives on the plate from unknown sources and, if you thinx it's still hard in Santa Fe to find out where your food was sourced, try rural Arizona.See the full content of this document
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The Earth Underneath
There are a lot of different ways I'd like to spend a long weekend away from work. Sleeping. Snowboarding. Cooking. Starting seedlings for this year's garden. Sleeping. Instead, when I recently stole an extra day, I flew to Arizona, ren...
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