Ryan Burkitt

I’m buying a house with 2 acres of land. The land has a few sparse trees, but is mostly lawn grass. I want to clear the existing grass and plant better grass for grazing goats.

I was wondering are pigs good for clearing out lawn grass? Will they uproot the grass? And will the grass provide any additional nutrition for the pigs?

For anyone that has built or owned a natural building. Is there a way to cool a natural building without electricity? I live in the midwest where it gets fairly hot around uppers 80s on average.

Cristobal Cristo wrote:This simple question needs more data:

-who will be building the house?
-how much free time do you have?
-how much construction experience do you have?
-where do you live?

and probably more.

I live in southeast, Ohio and I work 40hrs a week. I dont have a lot of construction experience. The only experience I have is some wood carving skills and I work in apartment maintenance.

Also I plan to build the house myself.

Hello, new to natural building, I’m interested in building a timber frame, cob house. However, I’m wondering if it is more expensive than traditional stick house building. Also, is there anyone here who hasdome so and what can you say about it. Thank you

Thank you for the response, I live in Columbus, OH if that gives you any idea.

How would one get into a career in Timber framing? I have little carpentry skills, but I used to carve wood bows and arrows. Along with some other woodworking projects. However, I do enjoy woodworking and I would love to build my own house someday.