One final touch in the treehouses was creating this log staircase. With the help of the Durham parks department, we located the perfect log standing dead in a city park. Post oak is known to be quite rot resistant and as its name implies, traditionally used for...
Now that the treehouses are complete and Hideaway Woods is open to the public, I have more time to post other projects from the year. One highlight was working with the kids at the SEEDS educational garden to build a cob wall at the entry of their new garden plot....
Rising Earth was brought in to provide custom carpentry work on the construction of a multiple treehouse playground in Durham, NC. Design, bridges, and tree connections was done by treetop builders of PA, while Rising Earth performed framing and finish work on the...
2015 Workshops at Mud Dauber School of Natural Building: Michael is once again collaborating with Greg Allen in instructing natural building workshops in North Carolina. We are offering two week long courses that will provide a thorough introduction to building with...
Michael McDonough and Rising Earth Natural Building welcome a second home on the web: risingearthbuilding.com will compliment this blog with project portfolio and more detail on myself and work. The site will be updated with more content in time, while this blog...
We worked closely with architect Dave Murray and Builder Creative Construction to craft beautifully sculpted super insulated, and carbon sequestering straw bale walls for this new multi-generational home in New Paltz, NY. This wall assembly provides about R-60...
