Depending on how you count, California’s Mexican era lasted 24 to 27 years ... the state’s most influential buildings to rise, brick by adobe brick. And it was time enough for a new wave ...

It involves building adobe brick ovens, or hornos, at migrant shelters on the Mexican side of the border. One oven is already up and running at Casa de la Misericordia shelter in Nogales ...

“Oh my god, a community event making adobe. How could you ask for anything ... in the straw-filled mud that would become an adobe brick, prodding the mush into the corners of a wooden mold.

More than 200 years ago, the Spanish and Mexican residents of Monterey ate ... the original Casa Munras was constructed of handmade adobe bricks. Parts of the original dining room and porch ...

which works to support the rural Mexican communities that produce agave spirits. Together they started the 818 Bricks Program, using 818 Tequila’s post-production agave fibers to create adobe ...