Hopefully you are somewhere out there doing your best to celebrate the day by planting trees, putting in garden or maybe some other community service.
While I did not get to do anything like that do to my unfortunate work schedule I was able to get a little bit farther on a special summer project I am working on.
I am attempting to build raised gardens beds this summer but not out of wood but out of Cob. If you don't know what cob is it is basically a mixture of clay, sand, aggregates and straw shaped and dried to form blocks or walls. This type of earthen building has a long history all around the world and is very durable even in wet climates like England and Oregon.
Its long history in wet climates got me thinking that maybe it could be used as a garden bed medium. The only key is to make sure the soil it is holding does not get super saturated and cause the cob to begin to come apart. We shall see as the summer progresses if it works and what kind of garden it will let me have.
Today I took the first step in that experiment by getting some appropriate clayey soil and by starting a battery of tests that will tell me if the soil I have will work to build cob out of.
Hopefully my crazy experiment will work and I will have successfully built garden beds from cob.
So that's what I have done on my Earth Day, hopefully you have done something for the earth with yours.
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