Today's installment of Building a Stove revolves around grass. Grass is essential to building a fuel efficient stove. It adds strength a durability to the mud mixture that the stove is sculpted out of. The type of grass is very important as well. It needs to be tall, thick grass that is hard to rip apart. It is also the kind of grass that itches and cuts you up a bit!
So Franco, Madia, Nasimu, Brian, and I all headed down to the fields and harvested two big bags of grass. It was a very itchy experience! After packing our sacks full they were carried over to the Model farm. The sack was almost as big as Nasimu, and yet she carried it on her head looking poised the whole way!
Then it gets chopped up into small pieces so that it will more easily incorporate with the soil.
Stay tuned for the final installment of Build a Stove featuring how to make mud, and how to shape a stove!
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