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SundayDinnerFarm
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I have been working on my greenhouse plans for the year round greenhouse. It will be earth bermed in our south facing hill, and have some modified PAHS umbrella ideas built in. But I have been searching for the right materials to make the back wall, and have been looking at rammed earth. Anyone on here with experience using rammed earth? Would it be possible to build the rammed earth wall for thermal mass, then do the vapor barrier and drainage, and backfill behind it? Or would the moisture ruin the rammed wall?

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I would be concerned about moisture, I would use tires for forms the same as earthships on the back wall, there was a group using the method in Canada I believe, let me look for the link

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thanks! I have long tried to talk the farmer into an Earthship, but he's not budging.

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looks like they are in california, this is the complete playlist for what they have done so far

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Quote from Sunday Dinner Farm on December 2, 2013, 14:24

thanks! I have long tried to talk the farmer into an Earthship, but he's not budging.

we did ours using the surface bonded cement method, show him this, see if he likes it

http://thehomesteadi.....reenhouse/

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By the way, we spent the weekend poring over your posts on your build. Your house is awesome!

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why thank-you, lol, so I guess he saw the method already then

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He loved your house. Our concern though is that the space we have available to put the greenhouse is our pasture slope, which is smack in the middle of all the drainage on the property. The entire property is on a southern slope, with springs through it. The house is on a raised section at the bottom of the slope, so it's a little drier but still has a spring running through the basement of the old farmhouse. The greenhouse will need substantial drainage on the back wall.

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