Our journey starts back in the late 1970's when Thane bought a book in Beaverton Mall (Beaverton, OR) about the Balcomb's "Unit 1" Santa Fe solar home build, see this article in Mother Earth News (https://www.motherearthnews.com/green-homes/solar-adobe-home-zmaz79sozraw).
As the years passed, Thane lost that book and was never able to find it or aquire another copy since. It remained a memory until visiting Judy who lived in the southwest in 2011 and an opportunity came along to attend a 3 day hands-on solar adobe construction class in Belen, NM. It has been a passion of ours to someday build an earthen home free of the modern day contaminants in todays construction materials.
Today, we are sharing the very start of this experience on our land in Mountainair, NM. Follow us along by subscribing to our YouTube channel below: