Basically it's an extremely sustainable, durable, and efficient natural building method used all over the world. It's becoming more popular in the U.S. as building codes consider sustainable buildings.
So we're moving in to my in-laws in two weeks and will be preparing ourselves to build this home ourselves next summer! Here's the plans we've decided on.
The great thing about this plan is that it's designed to be extremely energy efficient. It utilizes passive solar energy and is extremely insulated. It's also geared to be totally ideal to convert to a completely solar house. Oh, did I mention these things are extremely cheap to build? And they're more stable, insulated, and weather resistant than traditional stick built homes. Awesome, right? Oh, and it takes a very low skill level to build these, which is great because we're doing it ourselves. Our friends and family may receive invitations to help next summer, we do have a building window before the snow comes... So right now I'm doing all kinds of research and budgeting, I figure the more I know the better. Some days I get really overwhelmed with it, but last night I felt a lot of reassurance from Heavenly Father. Hey, if He can help Nephi build a ship to cross the ocean, He can help Josh and I build an earthbag house in a summer, right? Right.
Amen to that.
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