“Take the German stove, for instance – where can you find it outside of German countries? I am sure I have never seen it where German was not the language of the region. Yet it is by long odds the best stove and the most convenient and economical that has yet been invented. To the […]
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We are really excited about this video. It documents the events leading up to and during the natural building festival: Bioconstruyendo 2010 in El Bolson, Patagonia, Argentina. Both Eva and Max were lead instructors for the event which was extremely successful. So many great things were accomplished and so much fun was had! Visit Bioconstruyendo’s
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We won 1st place in the masonry heater design/build contest with the heater that we recently built in Patagonia, Argentina and 3rd place with the oven that we built in Berkeley, California. We will link to the contest results on the Masonry Heater Association page when they have published them. This is the second year
Firespeaking wins two awards at this year’s Masonry Heater Association annual gathering! Read More »
What is a Rocket Mass Heater? A Rocket Mass Heater is a wood-fired device which is clean burning, affordable to build, uses local and recycled materials, and creates a wonderful kind of warmth for heating cottages and small homes. In a very unique way, the Rocket Mass Heater combines both the immediate heat offered by
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This is the masonry heater that we built in the central community building of the Rio Azul community outside of El Bolson, Patagonia, Argentina in March of 2010. This heater can act as an open fireplace to provide the magic of fire and cut the chill in the late Spring or early Fall… but it
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Hawthorn Farm is 10 minutes away from the town of Woodinville with several grocery stores, library with internet access, bookstore, restaurants etc. This three-acre farm is 20 miles northeast of Seattle. There is plenty of space to pitch tents, and the living room has lots of floor space if people prefer to be inside. The
Woodinville, WA August 12-21, 2010 Wood-Fired Barrel Oven Workshop (August 12-13-14) In this weekend workshop you will learn all the skills necessary to build yourself an affordable, practical and productive wood-fired oven. Basics of making and laying adobe bricks Construction of a vaulted arch Principles of building for fire Develop basic natural building intuition Rustic
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In May of 2009, I traveled back to the island of Bali, in the Indonesian archipelago, where I spent much time as a young boy. The island, its people and its culture continually inspire me… the degree to which they are immersed in and work together with their natural environment, their exuberantly-expressed spirituality and their
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During my stint as a staff member at the Cob Cottage Company, I was responsible for building three Rumford fireplaces. Within open fireplace design, the Rumford fireplace offers the greatest efficiency in terms of how much heat actually radiates into the room. The Rumford design is characterized by a shallow firebox and a tall and
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During 2006 & 2007, Max and Alex Edleson set about the building of Alex’s house in a clearing in the woods on a community-owned piece of land in the beautiful Rio Azul valley, near El Bolson, Argentina (Patagonia). The building is a hybrid of natural building techniques including round-pole timber framing, rustic carpentry, non-load bearing
In October 2009, Eva, Max and the fantastic Betty Seaman of Spirit Pine were hired by an accomplished healer in the Santa Barbara area to construct a building to do prayer in. Perscriptions for the building were that it be affordable and that it follow basic Huichol cultural guidelines for such a space which included
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