EL HORNO
Hicimos una minga junto con amigos para la construcción de nuestro horno de leña. Básicamente preparamos una tarima en guadua y barro, en la que instalamos una estructura de latas (tablillas) de guadua amarradas con cabuya en forma de iglú.

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Le four a séché pendant deux mois couvert d´un plastique et nous avons fait le premier feu à
l´intérieur avec l´idée de cuire la terre et brûler le structure en bambou. Pour finir nous avons appliqué la dernière couche de terre extérieure décorative… En même temps nous avons fabriqué la porte en fer, le plan de travail en mosaïque de carreaux recyclé et la toiture pour protéger l’ensemble.
Then we covered this first layer of caly with a metalic mesh of the kind used for fences or animal enclosures. This mesh helps preventing craking of the clay structure in the drying process. The mesh was covered with another layer of clay as the first one. We left the structure drying for about 2 months and then started a fire inside. The fire was intended to harden the clay and burn the bambu structure still inside.
This process created some small cracks that were spected and filled again with clay. We decorated the the oven with another layer of clay and instaled an iron door and an iron ring on top, to use the chimney as a stove if needed. We made a bambu structure with recicled plastic roof to protect the oven from the rain.


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We did a « minga » (ancestral name for a ritual community work session). We basically made a bed with « guadua », a giant species of Bambu and fille dit with clay. Then we made an iglu kind of structure with « latas » (thin bambu slices). This structure was covered with plantain leaves and then with hand made cilinders of moist clay (a mixture of clay, sand, manure, dry grass and water) of about 3 inches diameter.
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