Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Ken Hargesheimer <minifarms2@yahoo.com>]

I have seen floors and houses.  The houses I have seen use brick made of soil cement.  Cinvaram brick machine.  Invented in Colombia many years ago.  In the USA, they use soil cement but called rammed earth. Build a form, put in the SC and pack it.  Info should be easy to find.

 

Ken

--- On Sun, 6/13/10, Tradingpost <tradingpost@lobo.net> wrote:

From: Tradingpost <tradingpost@lobo.net>
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Garden plans
To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Sunday, June 13, 2010, 3:42 PM

Hey Ken, it never occurred to me and I'm a big fan of soil cement. I believe you, it takes a sledgehammer to break it and I used those proportions a while back in testing. You've seen houses of soil cement? Or just floors? If I could build right now I'd find a way to use soil cement. After all, adobe is commercially stabilized with asphalt or Portland and resists weathering just fine. Somehow the idea of building with what's beneath your feet has an appeal to me.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 6/13/2010 at 1:19 PM Ken Hargesheimer wrote:

>Instead of using cement/concrete to set post or anything else, use soil
>cement.  Remove the topsoil and set it aside.  Dig the hole.  put in the
>post.  Mix 10% cement in with 90% subsoil, mix in water and fill the
>posthole.  Ten years later I had to take out one to make a new fence. Had
>to use sledge hammer to break it up. I have seen soil/cement floors in
>houses made with s/s and it works.  Soil cement bricks made with a brick
>machine is great for building.
> 
>Ken H


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