The Crooked Forest Podcast
There is a decades-old relationship between natural building and the chemically sensitive population. Now that demographic is growing and even those who aren’t sensitive know that chemicals are everywhere and are affecting us. Recently, affordable housing usually has not equaled healthy housing. But old methods of building with earth/adobe that were local, affordable and healthy are still possible to build now, and affordably! This podcast highlights what it means to be Environmentally Sensitive and how to create an environmental solution by living in a whole neighborhood that is designed for its microbiome. Be sure go to https://crookedforestinstitute.org/ to subscribe to learn more.
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Thursday Feb 29, 2024
Thursday Feb 29, 2024
Larry Roybal is a master adobe builder who has built and renovated more than 20 adobe homes in Silver City/Grant County (and two in Sante Fe) since the early 1970s, when he moved down here from Northern New Mexico. Originally from Corrales, he built his first home there out of "terrones," a sort of "living adobe brick" used by the Isleta Indians. Join us as Larry regales us with dozens of capitivating stories, like building an adobe in front of the HUD building in Washington DC, visiting the Ignacio de Roybal House, an adobe that was built in 1705 by his ancestor, building the pagoda in Silver City's Gough Park, and looking back on the turbulent history of New Mexico through the unique lens of an artist with both Spanish and Indigenous ancestry.
SPECIAL BONUS: Don't miss this online photo album featuring four of the houses that Larry Roybal built and one that he renovated.
Sunday Jan 28, 2024
Sunday Jan 28, 2024
Nora Ureste is a Building Biologist who, together with her husband, Chris, is creating a small retreat center outside of Austin, Texas that can host people who are chemically and environmentally sensitive. The project, called Flourish Here, is working towards completing the first of 6 hempcrete homes and will feature a 5 bedroom retreat house, a comprehensive water catchment system and wellness amenities that include a tadelakt sauna. I visited her project in December 2023 on the Rolemodel Roadtrip and am looking forward to following along in the development process. https://nextcity.org/urbanist-news/the-lower-sioux-in-minnesota-need-homes-so-theyre-building-them-from-hemp
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Tuesday Dec 26, 2023
Tuesday Dec 26, 2023
Listen in as Holly hits the road on a road trip to visit three of the organizations that are inspiring us to believe that our dream is not just possible, but already succeeding in different places around the country. In this episode, she visits an agrihood, a hempcrete retreat center in development and a community land trust in the borderlands. See the Rolemodel Roadtrip Map here.
Sunday Aug 06, 2023
Sunday Aug 06, 2023
Join us for an Interview with Leah Olson, the Community Outreach Coordinator for Community Rebuilds in Moab, Utah. Community Rebuilds is a visionary affordable housing program that pairs natural building with a community land trust and finishes 12 to 16 houses a year using volunteers, interns and home-owners to keep workforce housing affordable in a crazy market. Their inclusionary education model was just celebrated by Patagonia, and as Leah will tell you, it's the people that make the magic in this amazing rolemodel program.
See how they pulled off creating the first affordable home to meet the Living Building Challenge by focusing on carbon-negative, locally sourced materials, passive solar design, water catchment and an almost zero-waste build site. Learn more about their process in this The World's First Affordable Living Buildings.
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Thursday Jul 06, 2023
Thursday Jul 06, 2023
Join us for an hour of conversation about the origin story of Crooked Forest Institute, with an interview by Kristen Lundgren, for her local radio show called "Interconnect." It begins with the health saga of getting sick in America, a hero's journey and then the crystal clarity that the world would be better with one hundred more tiny adobes.
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Tuesday Nov 22, 2022
Tuesday Nov 22, 2022
Joe is an author, educator, architect and artist and our newest Board member! He has thirty years of architectural experience with a focus on ecological design, green building and sustainable community design. Join us as we discuss our Neighborhood design.
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Monday Nov 21, 2022
Monday Nov 21, 2022
Join us for the Crooked Forest Podcast
I'm your host, Holly Noonan, and we will be discussing affordable housing for sensitive people and all aspects of paradigm-changing trends in natural building and how it relates to your health, like living in neighborhoods designed specifically for the microbiome. We'll also explore creative solutions for affordable home-ownership like community land trusts and co-operatives, and delve into permaculture and regenerative systems design.
Be sure to visit to https://crookedforestinstitute.org/ subscribe for more.
The Crooked Forest Podcast
I'm your host, Holly Noonan, and we will be discussing affordable housing for sensitive people and all aspects of paradigm-changing trends in natural building and how it relates to your health, like living in neighborhoods designed specifically for the microbiome. We'll also explore creative solutions for affordable home-ownership like community land trusts and co-operatives, and delve into permaculture and regenerative systems design.