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Sand and clay mixture tests by Tom Keeling. Fazenda Tomati Portugal Permaculture Design Certificate 2019 In the video below, I cover some basic tests you can do to analyse your earth for rendering… It is important to do as many tests as you can before applying an earthen finish. For me the main reason for doing this at every job is that the earth is always going to be a little bit different, even if in this case the earth was mined from the same site as a previous job. We knew from before that this particular mine gave earth with a very nice percentage of clay to sand (25:75) which was ideal to work with, but even so we still carried out the basic tests to see how the mixtures fared in our particular conditions. ....