How Geeli Mitti is building sustainable houses using natural materials

Founded in 2015, Geeli Mitti Farms was meant to be a place where people go back to their roots and reconnect with themselves and with nature

A house built without bricks and cement? And with mud? Seems like fiction? One has to visit Vasant Kunj’s Sindhi Basti or slum to witness it! It is the very first Earthbag technique based mud school in Delhi built by Geeli Mitti, run by Shagun Singh.

Earthbag buildings are bags filled with earthen materials, stacked to make a building. The system was invented by Iranian-American architect Nader Khalili in the 1960s, as a sustainable and low-cost housing solution.

Geeli Mitti has two parts — Geeli Mitti Farms and Geeli Mitti Foundation. Founded in 2015, Geeli Mitti Farms was meant to be a