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We had a modest start last year to say the least. 2000 bricks sold to half a dozen people, two at the Taos Pueblo. Another 400 made for my daughter’s new room addition to our house. We started formally making bricks for customers at the beginning of August. Only using a small, carved our portion of our land, we could make only 1,000 bricks at a time. By hand.

But we had to watch them dry.

Not ideal.

Moving into 2025, I have had a very auspicious start. Selling the last forty full and half bricks on a cold call to a fella from Española, he gave me three fifty dollar bills for the sale. The fifty dollar bills looked odd. I wondered if they were real, asked him, and he ensured me that not only were they real, but from a special 1993 printing, or something. I don’t get the appeal. Nonetheless, a brief google search showed me that these bills were apparently marketable at $150 per bill. Beats me why someone would do that, but hey, to each their own.

Whatever the case, that is a good start to the adobe brick season. We are looking at expanding closer to the Questa/Sunshine Valley area with machinery and real estate, hopefully getting an adobe laying machine.

Our Adobe bricks are wonderful. We will make so many this year. The earthbuilding push needs to happen with supply, education, and passion.

I am also writing an Illustrated Adobe Code, that will be a succinct and needed manual for the construction of adobe walls.

And I need to finish my daughter’s bedroom addition.

If you are interested in buying adobe bricks, wanting to help, or ask any questions, give me a call: 575-741-6598

• Keaton