After my experience with natural building and an off-grid lifestyle I decided to work on an individual project to create my own eco community on a piece of land in the hills. I've been working here on the land called Turiya Farms since 2017 slowly finishing projects to be able to live off the land. The first building project was to finish a tool shed where we could keep our equipment securely. We used material available locally and finished this project by hand.

We decided to make us of our existing terraces, and locate the new toolshed in a corner, utilizing the existing terrace walls.
First, a solid stone foundation is laid out. The stone pieces are chiseled by hand from boulders that were already on our land.
Our neighbours also saw this as a chance to get rid of boulders on their land and provided us material at no extra charge.The team
was divided into three groups. People breaking boulders and transporting the pieces to our site, the mason and his team chiselling and stacking rocks, and people digging out mud and mixing a mud mortar.There was also a tea making sub-group that supplied the entire team every few hours.

Stone is hand cut from larger rocks in such a way that the pieces
interlock with each other. The walls are up to 2 feet thick so they can support their own weight. Each piece of stone is
meticulously placed using wet mud as a mortar. As the structure is protected by a roof, there is no need to waterproof our mortar.
The stones are capable of standing on their own and the mortar is used as a binding agent and to seal gaps.

The tool shed measures about 18 by 12 feet from the outside and is about 10 feet tall at its highest point. We started our build in October of 2017 and finished by January of 2018.