NO HOUSE? NO PROBLEM. How We’re Starting from a Tent and Ending with a Home
For most, building a home is what douses the flame of homestead dreams. Having to go into great debt to collect a couple eggs every day is a defeated purpose. Watching Alone and other survivor programming – including endless videos of people making bamboo huts, mud & cob homes, compressed earth domes, sandbag earthships, and working with shipping containers and steel – generates confidence in the alternatives… if you’re willing to start out in a tent.
The opportunity to live outside the box brings shapes like pyramids, spheres, domes, ovals, hexagons, and octagons into the higher self for higher-self architecture. As expressed, our mission is to give an adaptable cultivation experience, resurrecting soel program to conduct self as Stewardian.
We’re offering opportunities for members to sponsor the erection of EarthOmes (ranging from 100 to 1000 sq feet) in various styles and materials – more craftsmanship, more exploration for materials that will express high-vibrating environments. Working with mud and stone doesn’t mean “shanty” when you explore what people are building with more time and less cement.
These skills and experiences will be harnessed and shared throughout the island and world, creating employment opportunities for both members and locals – extending stays and expanding purpose. Each Ome could serve as a prototype to inspire other members and island landowners.
As part of fundraising, I’m offering members (through financial contribution, skill, and desire) an opportunity to share the experience of erecting a camp and shelter from scratch. Depending on sponsorship level and interview factors, opportunities may include timeshares or financing your own space.
The experience is what creates and restores memory. Based on the example videos and experiences members bring, it will take more soel fire and less fiat currency to start a Stewardian camp – creating Omes that members can enjoy and maintain for many rings (years), preserving the experience for future generations while setting an example for other landowners to expand their own lands.
The Truth: You don’t need a mortgage to have shelter. You need: • A machete (for bamboo) • A shovel (for earth) • A river (for water and clay) • Time (because nothing good comes fast)
Phase 1: The First Week • Day 1: Tent up. Fire lit. Water secured. • Day 3: Bamboo canopy woven – rainproof, no plastic. • Day 7: First earth walls packed – no cement, no debt. • Water pump installed • Spark plug electric board giving charge
Why This Works Here: • Bamboo grows wild (stronger than store-bought lumber) • The river gives clay (free mortar) • No winter means no rush – just steady progress
No theory. No hype. Just hands, dirt, and results.
Building with Sandbags: Cost, Materials & Structural Considerations
Cost Comparison: Sandbag construction is one of the cheapest building methods—far more affordable than concrete blocks, timber framing, or brick. A basic sandbag dome can cost $3-$10 per sq ft (vs. $20-$150+ for conventional homes). You mainly need:
Sandbags (polypropylene or burlap, $0.50-$2 each)
Barbed wire (for tensile strength between layers, ~$50/roll)
Clay or lime plaster (for waterproofing, ~$1-$3/sq ft)
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