Jan 5, 2014 | Circle Organic Farm Building, Construction Blogs, Natural plaster, Recipes
One of the most exciting elements of the Circle Organic farm project is the home-made hydraulic lime plaster we successfully used on the interior and exterior walls of the building. With this new recipe, we are able to make a plaster with locally sourced materials...
Dec 24, 2013 | Circle Organic Farm Building, Construction Blogs, Straw bale building
We do a lot of straw bale work at Endeavour, but it’s such a normal part of what we do that there haven’t been any posts that show us putting in bales for a long time! Over the past few years, we’ve arrived at a framing system for our bale walls that...
Oct 25, 2013 | Circle Organic Farm Building, Construction Blogs, Natural building materials and techniques, Recipes
Followers of the Endeavour blog may remember that last year we used an innovative new insulation based on Poraver expanded glass beads as our sub slab insulation for Canada’s Greenest Home. At the time, we were excited to find an insulation that can be reliably...
Oct 22, 2013 | Circle Organic Farm Building, Natural building materials and techniques
Rubble trench foundations offer a means by which to connect a building to frost-free ground in cold climates without resorting to the use of a concrete wall and footing. While rubble trench foundations have a long history, they are not a common practice as most...
Jul 13, 2013 | Construction Blogs, Natural building materials and techniques
On July 3rd, the students at Endeavour’s Sustainable New Construction program took part in a day long workshop focused on building hyper-parabolic or “Hypar” roofs. This type of roofing is much different than any other form of roof. Rather than using...
