Looking Back on the Natural Building Course in Jordan
Building, Courses/Workshops — by Hamzah Abu-Ragheb March 18, 2011
A few weeks prior to the recent (end of February, 2011) 5-day Natural Building course at the Jordan Valley Permaculture Project (aka ‘Greening the Desert – the Sequel’) in Jordan, I was feeling anxious. Not only was it my first time to teach a full-on workshop, but I had been planning to have a lot more of the building done. We had started working on one wall sometime close to the end of November, and we had not even finished that!
It all started after meeting Geoff and Nadia Lawton who were planning on starting work on the main building for the PRI Jordan site. We bounced ideas back and forth and were trying to make as good of a “model” as possible for a well planned, mostly earthen building. Soil samples were taken for earthen blocks, a local contractor was contacted for starting some foundations and things slowly started moving forward.
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