Finally the day we have been waiting for! It is time to get our feet muddy and make plaster with 100% natural ingredients.
In this video I will be sharing how my partner and I are creating beautiful walls with just a few simple ingredients, found anywhere on earth.
Here are the exact proportions of the earthen plaster we make in this video:
8 buckets of dry sand
5 buckets of (clay-ish) dirt, soaked in fermented prickly pear juice
1 bucket of horse manure, also soaked in prickly pear juice
3 buckets of finely chopped straw
The size of the bucket is up to you, just be sure to use the same bucket to measure all the different ingredients.
There are so many different ways to make earthen plaster, this one is the first plastering over which we will add a finer plaster in a few weeks. So stay tuned for a future video all about that.
And if you missed the previous installment of this series, here is what came before the plastering. The inside of the walls were made with a local South American technique of building called quincha;
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