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Earthbag Housing

Hello! Have you heard about earthbag houses? Well, they are awesome, and this post will introduce you to them. I you look up “earthbag house” on the internet, this picture, or one very similar, will be the first to pop up. An earthbag house is just a regular house built out of earthbags (basically, it’sContinue reading “Earthbag Housing”

My Earth Home

Hey y’all, As I mentioned before, I am now ¼ owner of 64(ish) acres in East Texas. My husband and I plan to build a house on this land (ourselves, because not only is that ridiculously cool, but we also don’t have much money). I want to build an earthbag home. What’s an earthbag home?Continue reading “My Earth Home”

Earthbag home

Hey y’all, It’s not too often that the internet cannot guide you on something. As I’ve talked about, I’m in the heavy planning stage for my earthbag home. I’m planning to dig into the earth and have the bottom half of the house in the ground. I’m sure this has been done (or something veryContinue reading “Earthbag home”

Fort Merritt part 1

Hey y’all, So, I’ve come to own some land out in the country. How that happened is a different post, but that was pretty cool. Anyway, my husband and I are going to build some sort of structure on the land. We’re planning to build an earthbag house that we’ll live in either full- orContinue reading “Fort Merritt part 1”

Family Land

Hey y’all, Recently, I was given a big gift. So, my family (originally my grandparents) own 64(ish?) acres of land in East Texas. My grandparents have both passed away, so now my parents’ generation owns the land jointly. There were 4 children to my grandparents, so each child owns ¼. However, my aunt wasn’t interestedContinue reading “Family Land”