permaculture, chooks & stuff in the Samford Valley (Queensland)
Posted in mud brick making on Aug 15th, 2009
Followers of random plantings will know that playing around with making mud bricks is one of my things…usually for an hour or so of a Sunday morning.
In fact, I have doing this for over 2 months now.
Coincidently or at least simultaneously, this term my older son’s class at the local Steiner school has been studying [...]
Posted in mud brick making on Jun 28th, 2009
Three weeks on from my first attempt at making mud bricks, I’ve had another go. This time, I’ve been a tad more scientific – not that the earlier batch was a total disaster.
Back then, I simply mixed a very dark clay-ey mud from our marsh with sugar cane mulch. The resulting bricks have held together [...]
Posted in mud brick making on Jun 11th, 2009
An exciting day (I guess you really needed to be there) for a novice mud brick maker – 3 days since the 6 bricks were made. The book says that they can now be turned on their sides to accelerate the drying process. I keep expecting them to fall apart ….but they don’t.
Posted in mud brick making on Jun 8th, 2009
We have a bit of a dam….well a marshy swamp really, totally overgrown with cumbungi (a native aquatic plant). I was down there the other day and making a tentative start at clearing it up, when I came across the most amazing brown/black mud at the dam edge….almost pure clay by the looks. My mind [...]
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