Cooking test on the finished earth stove

Note: The ventilation pipe for the smoke is still missing!

Rammed-Earth-Stove test

For info about stove plaese view earlier post: http://bhd-research-notes.blogspot.com.es/2012/06/rammed-earth-stoves-in-malawi.html

Marion Regitko, BHD executive director, inspecting the earth stove

Finishing the last layer from the top

Gordon Haslett, BHD president, sweating away with the ram rod!

Ramming the moist earth layer by layer

The wooden mold for the stove was kindly made by BHD volunteer Pedro Varela, Monachil (Granada)

RAMMED EARTH STOVES IN MALAWI

RAMMED EARTH STOVE DEVELOPED BY THE EASTAFRICATRUST.ORG.UK
There are very good instructions on their website about how to build the stove etc.

PHOTO BY TRISTAN Y GEORGE

BEAUTIFUL RAMMED EARTH TECHNOLOGY

CONSTRUCTION OF RAMMED EARTH WALL
LINK TO NEWWEBPICK


LINK TO
INSPIRATION GREEN. This is a great blog with lot's of rammed earth building examples, historic and new.