In May of 2016 I was fortunate enough to visit Charlie Rendall at his home in San Marcos la Laguna, Guatemala. Charlie is the owner of “Return to the Forest,” a natural building and education company that specializes in bamboo and local earthen building techniques. On a sunny Friday morning I hiked up to his property, which would have been impossible to find without directions. A little scramble up a meandering dirt path through a narrow alley and dense tropical foliage to a framed bamboo gate that opens into his lush but bustling homestead. I dodged my way around the […]