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This past weekend I spent a day helping/teaching three young folks installing an earth floor in a 400 sf straw bale cottage belonging to 33 year old Nicole Davis. Â Short of installing the kitchen cabinets and sink, this was the last step in finishing her little building, mostly self-built, after a couple of years of hard work. Â It always amazes me what can happen and how much people can do with a little guidance and good technique. Â So I thought […]
I keep thinking I should post something to my blog, our past 3 months have been ridiculously busy. Â However, I’m poised to fill in the blanks with a series of short posts of our happenings over the past several months. Â For today, partially because it doesn’t take much writing and I think the photos are fun, I’m posting a few of our son Arjuna’s (aka Oso) newly remodeled 1965 Ambassador Airstream trailer. Â He picked it up at the end of […]
Here’s a few items that I thought I’d share with you, mostly this post was driven by people requesting the recipe for the “coctel de nopalitos” or in English, prickly pear pad salad with a lot of juice. Â So I thought instead of emailing it out repeatedly why not do it once and for all here.Â
Looking back, March seems little more than a blur. Our life was consumed by the state of Sonora. Either we were there or it came to us. Not only did the month of March look like a blur, in retrospect, so seems that arbitrary line called the border. Crossing back and forth frequently almost makes it seem imaginary with perhaps the exception of the congestion at the border city of Nogales. So much happened during the course of the last […]
“Connecting People, Culture and Nature,†was the phrase we chose when we created The Canelo Project. To this day, I think it describes our work better than anything else. It’s what comes easy to us and I think it’s not an exaggeration to say that connecting people from different cultural contexts is something that we do as well, if not better than most. And even though we are mostly known for straw bale building and clay, our work really has […]