Back To Earth Project – Building With Community
Back to earth project aspires to connect people
and spread the knowledge and love for natural, sustainable, healthy living.
We create community-driven projects and support owner-builder projects.
good quality and cheap – Our method of building quality and yet maintaining a low budget is a combination that includes local professionals team leaders, local unskilled labor and the integration of international volunteers who all getting appropriate training altogether.
Consulting for natural building material – you decided to build with natural materials? Excellent! We will be happy to contact you from the first stage, and help you choose the natural materials suitable for your area, climate and style.
Tailor made project – If you are at the stage of the construction plans, we have much to contribute from our experience and knowledge so that the planning will be simple, The details are clear and the execution will be easy and quick.
Ones we receive the project’s architectural plans, we contact the customer and interview him to understand the needs and expectations. The client receives an explanation on the stages of the work and then we pass a price estimate for our part in the project
We collaborate with different professionals and we don’t have permanent staff. we hire experienced professionals as needed and by the nature of the project, together with a team of trained volunteers who taking part in the construction team.
Our goal is to empower and train as many people as possible across the world, create new jobs, strengthen communities by providing skills and inspire people to build together affordable, comfortable, long-lasting houses and community spaces using earth and local natural materials.
Past projects
Earth Home
Technique: Rammed Earth
Join us in Israel and help to build Rammed earth Home starting 1.12
Come to volunteer with Back To Earth Project in a unique experience of living and building with us in Rammed Earth technique, a Community Project in Israel!
About the project
I will be giving training in the construction site on the building technique and i will be creating a team of professional builders and international volunteers that will work together.
Rammed Earth involved compressing a damp mixture of soil that has suitable proportions of sand, gravel, clay, and/or an added stabilizer into an externally supported frame to form a solid, timeless and beautiful walls
Join as Volunteer
we expect volunteers to work 7-8 hours a day for 5 days a week – of course if someone needs a rest it’s totally ok.
* we are looking for a positive and energetic person, with a good physical condition, willing to do manual work and to be a team player
The Center of Light
Technique: Straw – Clay
Join us in Poland and help to build the “Center Of Light” starting on the 18.5
Come to volunteer with #BackToEarthProject in a unique experience of living and building with us in #Straw_Clay technique, a Community Project in Poland!
I will be collaborating with Ecovillage Bhrugu Aranya and be leading the Clay Straw walls building in the project called the #CentreOfLight
About the project
I will be giving training on the building technique and be creating a team of professional builders and international volunteers that will work together.
Straw Clay is a mixture of long wheat straw and a clay slip (thick soup texture) that being cast into temporary frames.
Straw Clay is an efficient, cheap and easy technique to create #Natural_insulated_walls with minimal technical knowledge.
we will start working from May 18.5 until June 18.6
u are welcome to join us on the day of the 17.5
how to get here – https://agnihotra.pl/en/contact/
More details about the ecovillage, the community and the project here – https://agnihotra.pl/en/centre-of-light/
accommodation will be in 4 shared caravan\mobile home for long-term volunteers and camping tents for short term
we will provide u 2 hot meals a day ( lunch and dinner) + ingredients to make your breakfast *all food is vegetarian
there are hot showers, toilets and lots of nature around
we are close to the historic town of Krakow and the Tatra Mountain were u can go to explore and hike in your free time
we expect volunteers to work 7 hours a day for 5 days a week – of course, if someone needs a rest it’s totally ok.
* we are looking for a positive and energetic person, with a good physical condition, willing to do manual work and to be a team player
The Women’s Microfinance Co-op
Technique: Rammed Earth & Cseb
In collaboration with Conscious Impact, an American organization situated in Takure, a small village in Sindhupalchok, one of the most affected districts in Nepal after 2015 earthquake.
We built a rammed earth office and meeting hall and a toilet-shower room built from CSEB for the local women’s financial cooperative.
Rammed earth is an ancient building method which using local earth mixes with small gravel, that is being tamped and compacted in temporary frames to create walls, in the same way, that nature creates rock.
is simple to construct, affordable, strong, and durable.
More about Rammed Earth – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rammed_earth
More about CSEB – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressed_earth_block
About the project
The Women’s Co-op currently functions as a micro-finance group with approximately 730 members from various households in the Nawalpur district. Each month, the women pay a membership fee of 100 rupees (1 USD) which qualifies them to apply for loans anywhere from 5,000 to 50,000 rupees. Most families in our area are practicing agriculturists whose work simply provides enough for basic necessities. These loans allow opportunities to invest in livestock, provide simple necessities for their households, or manage a medical emergency.
Sunita Tamang’s home
Technique: Earthbags
In collaboration with Conscious Impact, we built an earthbag home for a local community member, Sunita Tamang.
Sunita has been raising her three children on her own while working since she lost her husband just before the 2015 earthquakes. After nearly four months of construction, Sunita now has a new earthquake-resistant home which is the first of it’s kind in her community.
About the project
we trained and created a unique team of local community members with international volunteers supervised by experienced earthbag builder.
Earthbag is a technique that uses rice bags that are being staffed with sifted local soil and manually compacted by metal tamper, each course of the bag is laid one on top of another connected by 2 layers of barb wire and nailed with metal rebar that going through 6 layers of bags. there is concrete beam on the top to connect all the building walls and make a good foundation to lay the roof on top of the walls.
With a specific design, this technique is earthquake safe, fast to build and affordable and can be built by unskilled labor
nitzan iserovitch 