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Commenced:	01/01/2007
Submitted:	26/01/2011
Last updated:	19/09/2016
Location:	107 Redfern St , Sydney + Surrounds, NSW, AU
Phone:	+61 2 5300 4437
Website:	http://www.Milkwood.net
Climate zone:	Mediterranean

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Earthbag workshop Limerick comp winners!

Project: Milkwood

Posted by Kirsten Bradley almost 14 years ago

Thanks to everyone who entered to win a spot on our EarthBag Building Workshop. Here are the winning limericks!

earthbag inside Thanks to everyone who entered to win a spot on our EarthBag Building Workshop. Here are the winning limericks!

ADAM:

Barbedwire, earthbags and sand,

A new house we will build on your land,

All bound like a sausage,

We will build a new cottage,

With many people lending a hand.

KATARINA:

There was once a house in the forest

That was built of earth bags to be honest

It's walls were as warm

As a young ladies' dorm

And its curves were as cute as a florist

A caveat on that last one that once we looked up the origin of the limerick form, we were made aware that limericks are meant to be, um, as dirty as possible. Katarina entered a range of limericks that lived up to this, but we decided to print the cleanest one here.

and also some honorable mentions:

HARRIS:

When creating an earthbag construction

The structure you make has stacked function

the Emergy's low

its cooled by air flow

and its all put together with gumption

THELMA:

A galactic young lady called Stella

Met Neil, a skilled earthling fella:

“You’re my Guiding Star

With you I’ll go far -

We’ll stack EarthBags from ceiling to cellar”

Want to come along to our farm, build earthbag and mix with these amazing writers (and some earthbag builders, too? sign up below:

Earthbag Building Workshop: Milkwood Farm, Mudgee NSW Australia: 29 Feb - 5 Mar 2011

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