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Eugene Permaculture Guild - Eugene Oregon
Butterfly Blue. Sunday morning, we filled the classroom to hear Mark Lakeman from the ... children strolling around the neighborhood  collecting produce in their sacks. I see many reasons for this project.  The first ... field peppergrass (Lepidium campestre), and bladder campion (Silene latifolia). Acid soil preferred: bracken fern, hawkweed (very acid), spurry, corn marigold, ...
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Construction of a Rainwater Harvesting System
For obtaining ... walls built of burnt bricks, or blocks made from compressed sandy soil and cement, rubble stones and concrete are reinforced after they ... called curing. Covering the walls with polythene sheeting or plastic sacks, which must be properly secured against the walls using the sisal ...
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There are a few categories for experts that have yet to be filled; you will notice some holes in the list when you go to the Experts page ... has been instrumental in developing the use of earthbags, either individual sacks or long tubes of material mainly filled with adobe soil, for building houses. Wade said, "One of the attractions of the ...
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Building our slipform stone house on Main Street: an ongoing journal of the building adventure, Part I.
That means that there would normally be six sacks of cement per cubic yard of mixed concrete, but in this ... a plastic vapor barrier to prevent moisture from wicking up through the soil into the house, as well as to help block any radon ... . Besides, dust filters down through the cracks between the boards, unless filled with something like an epoxy resin. In our case, however, we ...
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Chardin: Travels in Persia Seventeen
Center of the Kingdom; but the fruitfulness of the Soil depending chiefly on the Water throughout the whole Kingdom, I shall ... heap up together all the Filth and Dirt of the Streets, fill Sacks with it, and carry it Home on their Asses, which doth ... twenty Cubits high, one against another, at some distance, which distance is filled up with Plaster; they stop the Oven, and keep Fire in it ...
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Living Routes - BioConstruindo (Natural Building Workshop)
Building with Adobe Superadobe design and construction (A technique that was started in California, it uses polypropylene sacks filled with dirt as the wall structure.) Cob design and construction (Cob is a mixture of clay soil, straw and water and is worked with ...
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Living Routes | Weblog for Brazil: Permaculture at Ecoversidade - Summer 2007
Designed to catch water and increase soil infilitration, a swale basically seems like a shallow ditch following a ... sacks with subsoil to make benches at the local school Posted by: Lucy Legan on Jul 10, 07 | 4:19 pm [0] comments (194 views) | Testing the soil ... 'll need to bring back home. The last week has been filled with lots of thought, and a lot of hands on experience. ...
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great-auk
Jacques Cartier visited an "Island of Birds" off Newfoundland; his crew filled two boats with great auks in less than half an hour, ... .5 miles long and 0.25 miles wide. There was no soil, and no plants, but the whole island was covered in millions ... , the feathers were separated from the auks' bodies and scooped into sacks. The denuded, boiled bodies were raked from the cauldron and thrown ...
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Natural Building Colloquium
The author has heard of structures built during the thirties or forties composed of soil-cement-filled burlap sacks ...
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Reports#18-22, 2007
Caña tubes at Bosque Encantado. It's quite a feat carrying sacks of bamboo up the hillsides to where there is a site of ... fills up twice as fast! The rest of us filled up Ricardito's truck with Caña tubes, sacks of rice hulls, the hole diggers and machetes ... the trees also seem to be doing a great job of maintaining soil humidity. So despite the repetition of watering trees, this process is going ...
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