I just ordered another book on timber framing. I have several projects to do and timber framing seems like an interesting option. Plus I have timber available and I'm already into old fashioned hand tool woodworking.
Where I'm kind of getting hung up is that I would like to do an infill that is breathable such as straw bale with natural plaster or something similar with good insulative value. I'm still thinking about that...
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Have you looked into hempcrete?
There was a vendor that was supposed to be at the Ozark Homestead Expo with a hempcrete demonstration, but I guess they didn't make it. I've never seen it before, but I'm interested.
That's awesome. I love the idea of building from the land.
This was my first attempt at round wood framing. I never really finished it but it's been standing for almost 2 years.
When I get back to MO I really want to build a round wood gazebo.
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Spent mushroom grow blocks? Good R value, and they’re even fire retardant. I just don’t know if you can get them in quantity down there.
I do have concerns about fungal and spore load. Could be that gassing it with chlorine dioxide would denature the spores.
You will always have fungus because nature abhors a vacuum. Nearly all the grow blocks are lions mane or oyster, so if they’re dormant there, they have primacy. They’re safe mushrooms. In theory, you would have less bad fungus because of the good.
The block itself is exclusively the spent grains grow media and mycelium, the “roots” if you will. The spores live exclusively in the fruiting body. If the block is dry, there is no fruiting body.
Here’s some I was going to compost, but they got rained on. Ignore the algae. You’d be getting dry blocks, and they wouldn’t be ugly like this. The white is the roots of the mushroom. Just really corky fiber. 
