Milkwood: permaculture courses, skills + stories

Skills and stories for growing, designing + living like it matters

Natural Building

Learn the art of natural building – including strawbale homes, tiny homes, Earthbag Domes, yurts and earthern floors – with our free articles and guides.

Building a Yurt from Scratch: Resources
July 4, 2012
Reciprocal Roof Research
June 2, 2012
Building an earthbag wicking bed garden…
May 20, 2012
Dave and Phoebe’s DIY Yurt
April 12, 2012
Talking tiny houses with the Telegraph
April 10, 2012
Rendering our Earthbag dome… first coat (bring on the cow poo)
April 3, 2012
Earthship Sydney Talk Resources
March 8, 2012
In which the House Dam fills but does not fail – Huzzah!
January 23, 2012
Produce No Waste: Bustan Qaraaqa’s bottle walls
November 2, 2011
Mud, Glorious Mud: Rendering the Tinyhouse
October 4, 2011
Our tinyhouse deadline: just when is the start of spring, anyway?
September 2, 2011
Tinyhouse build: our not-quite non-toxic house
August 20, 2011
Tinyhouse build: the story of the 5 dollar door
August 10, 2011
Tinyhouse build: we WILL be in by Spring
July 25, 2011
DIY EarthBag Dome: building the foundations
May 25, 2011
The walls they rise
May 11, 2011

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