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New Earthbag Workshop for June!
Come and join us over the weekend for 16-17 June for our next introductory Earthbag workshop in Newcastle! This course will be mostly practical, with lots of hands-on learning where we will make a...
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Clay Plaster Finished
Well after a week of rather nasty weather in Newcastle which held up things a little we completed this lovely clay plaster on Joan’s house. Assisted by French volunteer Morgane and Brazilian volunteer...
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Earthbag Day at Family Support Services
Come and join us for a fun day of Earthbagging at Newcastle Family Support Services Centre (Waratah) on Tuesday the 10th of July. We will be making a sandpit and low garden wall to be used by the...
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One day Earthbag Workshop
Windale Community Garden will be hosting a great ONE DAY EARTHBAG WORKSHOP on Saturday the 14th July. Learn all the basics in this one day workshop whilst having some fun building something practical...
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Newcastle Family Support Centre Opens
We had a great day on Tuesday building quite a bit more than anyone imagined – and mostly done all by the kids themselves!! With the initial idea of an Earthbag sandpit in the corner of this garden, to...
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Windale Community Garden Earthbag Day
Saturday was a fantastic day at Windale Community Garden (behind Lake Macquarie PCYC), with around 20 people who turned up to learn all the basics of Earthbag construction. We sculpted the edge of the...
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Hamilton Public School Earthbag Day
After postponing our first day due to rain many people arrived to take part in the next earthbag day – and it turned out to be beautiful! Lots of parents and children from Hamilton PS turned up to take...
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Wall rendering at Hamilton PS
After the school holidays everyone returned to the wall to finish it off with a thick coat of lime stucco render. The school had decided they wanted it a terracotta colour instead of the natural sand...
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Toronto Area Community Garden retaining wall
We were invited by the lovely Bea and Michelle at Toronto Area Community Garden to build a small retaining wall to define an area of ground at the rear of the community hall which would make planting...
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Toronto retaining wall rendered
A couple of weeks after the Earthbag retaining wall was finished we came back to make a day of rendering it. Its always lots of fun rendering as you can be so creative – it’s just like moulding clay....
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Billabong Park wall – Gloucester
We were invited on behalf of the amazing Gloucester Tucker Patch (www.tuckerpatch.com.au) and the Gloucester Environment Group to build a garden wall and seat as park of a demonstration day for the...
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Hamilton school wall facelift
This wall was located in the middle of the main school courtyard – and after a year or so of having school children running over the wall every day and enjoying it very much, it was time for little...
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ArchiCamp 2015
We took part in this fabulous weekend as part of ArchiCamp, founded by Jiri Loewe – a current architecture student at the University of Newcastle – in it’s inaugural ‘architecture in the sticks’ to be...
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Sandhills makeover
Sandhills Community Garden (sandhillscommunitygarden.org) is a much loved community garden in Newcastle East. It was one of the very first community gardens to start in Newcastle and has had wide...
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Coonamble site visit
We travelled to the far flung regional town of Coonamble recently on invitation by the local Wailwaan Aboriginal community, to investigate the feasibility of holding an earthbag workshop out there –...
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Shepherds Ground EcoVillage Community Engagement weekend
AuwaEarth was invited back to the Shepherds Ground Eco Village in late 2016 to assist the growing community in planning the next step forward and give an introductory talk on good design principles and...
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The beauty of earth building – Japan
I have recently returned from an architectural tour of Japan. The country never ceases to amaze me in the precision and care put into each and every detail… even (or especially) when the buildings are...
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House in Ibicoara, Bahia
This large house project was completed in late 2011. I am excited to finally share it now it has been settled in and loved for some time – and you get to see it in its beautiful finished state and how...
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AuwaEarth are relocating + World Environment Day Festival 2019
Friends of the Earth – AuwaEarth have some exciting news. We have relocated to the beautiful Northern Rivers region of NSW, Australia. Many of our clients have been asking us about projects in this...
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World Environment Day Festival 🌿
Thank you to everyone who came along and got their hands and feet dirty at the earth wall demonstration! We had a great day showing two different types of wattle-and-daub applications as well as a clay...
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