Plaster Master

Time to get plastered!  

Making our own earthen plasters (a blend of clay, sand, chopped straw, and a little bit of water), we covered our straw bale walls at the barn with a 'scratch' or first coat of plaster.  Our walls needed to breathe and dry a bit before we can finish them with a finish plaster coat. So, we took some time away from the barn  and helped around the YM campus, plastering a cob garden shed with a lime plaster, 

plastered the bridge area above the shop with a high-end plaster, American Clay, 

and learned how to make our own natural paints.  During our last intensive week, myself, Deva, Nico and Natan were anxious to put some finishing touches on our barn, so we mixed up a lime finish plaster,

and gave our barn a most beautiful wall finish.