Natural Walls - Take Two

In contrast to the labor intensive light straw clay assembly along our north wall, our south wall is made up of a wood chip and clay mixture.  After the wood chips, wood shavings, and sawdust are mixed together with a clay slip in a mortar mixer, 

they are poured into a double stud wall cavity faced with wood lath.  No tamping required!  The wood lath will later be finished with a lime/clay plaster.  While this wall took far less time to assemble, it also required more wood as a resource - not only in the insulation mix, but also for the lath.  

However, it does provide us with another example of a highly insulative natural wall system made up of what would be considered by-products form the conventional construction industry.