Starseed Creative

Please save the dates April 17-19 for this amazing event that is being hosted this year in Nevada City. Starseed Creative will be holding a hand on hemcrete workshop, presenting on hempcrete, and our home will be on the house tour. This will be a weekend to remember. If you are natural building curious, or an old muddy pro... come on out to learn and share how to build healthy living spaces.

Getting ready to tile the shower floor with pebble sheets.

Previous week’s work shaping and preparing Hempcrete walls, installing niches, plastering base coat over hempcrete and thin setting waterproof fabric over base. Thanks for all your help Brian Arnold! On to tiling the shower floors

Want to know about alternative building materials that can withstand fires for new and existing homes? Start listening to this episode 5 of CaliforniaBurning.net at 23:00 minutes in. Listen to the 50 minute episode from the beginning to hear about "a tour of a fire resistant house that survived the Carr fire while the rest of his neighborhood burnt. We’ll also hear from a man starting a movement to restore ecosystems as well as a business woman using biochar to address the problems surrounding excess forest fuel and dead trees from bark beetle infestations."

We are excited to share this 98 page report on hemp and lime's role in serving as a healthy building material. This report examines the history of hemp, growing hemp, lime production, and hempcrete's role in changing the construction industry. I saw this information presented at the first US Hemp Building Summit by two brilliant women professors from the Parsons New School of Design, Alison Mears & Jonsara Ruth.