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Dance like an elephant: Building with mud: April 2015

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Dance like an elephant: Building with mud. Building and living in an earthen home on the edge of Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe. Saturday, 4 April 2015. Setting up a sustainable system. The wild basil that grows here has a pungent smell and flavour, here i tried making a pesto from it. We also use it in the compost toilet to keep out flies. It's a pleasure to watch the chickens wandering around the garden. The one adult has been laying wonderful eggs. She has been making herself quite at home. I decided ...

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Dance like an elephant: Building with mud: July 2013

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Dance like an elephant: Building with mud. Building and living in an earthen home on the edge of Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe. Monday, 15 July 2013. Permaculture Design Course South Africa. As promised I am posting about what I have been doing the past few months since the termites moved in! Here is a short description of what permaculture is, many people have heard the term but aren’t really sure what it is:. Doing the course in a place that demonstrates a community of people living together and meeti...

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Dance like an elephant: Building with mud: July 2015

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Dance like an elephant: Building with mud. Building and living in an earthen home on the edge of Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe. Saturday, 11 July 2015. Mud love: earth oven and clay rocket stoves. I've just finished building another oven at a friends photographic safari lodge here in hwange 'Sable Sands' and have loved every minute of it! A beautiful lodge overlooking the dete vlei where some of the best wildlife sightings can be had! There was no lack of wine bottles for the sub-floor insulation. Empty...

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Dance like an elephant: Building with mud: December 2012

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Dance like an elephant: Building with mud. Building and living in an earthen home on the edge of Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe. Wednesday, 12 December 2012. I had to protect the walls with plastic during the storms, the trees have all their leaves now, the bush is thick and full of life! Rain collected from the shed roof after a storm. Friends coming for a holiday, end up doing some hard work! Filling up the clay in the soaking bins. It's great to have some shade again where the cob mixing goes on!

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Dance like an elephant: Building with mud: December 2014

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Dance like an elephant: Building with mud. Building and living in an earthen home on the edge of Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe. Saturday, 27 December 2014. Moving into our earthen home. It's been a month since we moved in and it feels like this is where we have always been. It's so much a part of us, I feel like it's almost part of my body I have spent so much time putting it all together. It's been quite a journey and now it really begins! The plastering is quite a big job. The top of the storeroom I u...

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Dance like an elephant: Building with mud: May 2015

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Dance like an elephant: Building with mud. Building and living in an earthen home on the edge of Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe. Saturday, 16 May 2015. Building an Earth oven/ pizza oven! There has been a spot waiting to be filled on the verandah, it was waiting for an Earth oven to be built there. We had a new friend Carrie coming to stay for a week and it seemed the perfect time to build this as she has built 9 ovens now! Filling up with rubble and gravel as I went up course by course. Making sure all ...

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Dance like an elephant: Building with mud: October 2012

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Dance like an elephant: Building with mud. Building and living in an earthen home on the edge of Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe. Friday, 19 October 2012. It's starting to look like a house, I've placed 4 window frames, so it's getting very exciting. As the house is on a slope there are going to be two different floor levels, it's important that the finished floor level will be above ground level. My husband had a week off work and joined me, he also fell in love with cob! It was really a heavy storm, I k...

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Dance like an elephant: Building with mud: October 2014

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Dance like an elephant: Building with mud. Building and living in an earthen home on the edge of Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe. Saturday, 25 October 2014. Sharing the . Mud. It's been a while since I last posted, I've been working on the last layer of plaster on the inside and it's taken quite some time to get it just right. It's a lot of fun and satisfying to give it a personal touch and to see it looking almost finished! Oliver watching a wasp make a huge nest under the shelf in his bedroom. Cowerie s...

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Dance like an elephant: Building with mud: February 2015

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Dance like an elephant: Building with mud. Building and living in an earthen home on the edge of Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe. Friday, 6 February 2015. We have been in the house for 3 months now, it really is a dream come true. There is still a lot of work to get everything into a working system, but it's getting there. This is our rainy season here and there has been a lot of rain, huge storms. This is where we see the transformation around us where all of nature wakes up! I put mosquito mesh around t...

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Dance like an elephant: Building with mud: March 2014

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Dance like an elephant: Building with mud. Building and living in an earthen home on the edge of Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe. Friday, 21 March 2014. 8220;Vision is not seeing things as they are but as they will be”. Watching our dream come to life is one of the most exciting and satisfying experiences, the whole plot is becoming a reality. The rainwater tank is up and running, Misheck helped me to make a strong slab to put it on. Building the roof and frame for the canvas shower room. Subscribe to: Po...