Hi Emily and Welcome to Permies!
I've added your thread to the Rockies Forum, which hopefully will alert your neighbours.
Check out the
building category for some of the natural building projects that other Permies are sharing, we'd love to see your projects too if you would like to share them with us!
To get started you might like to go to
this thread which gives links to lots of useful thread on How to do things on Permies, like post pictures and search for topics.
Great to have you here!
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