Archive for April, 2009

[ July 26, 2009 to August 2, 2009. September 13, 2009 to September 20, 2009. ] Includes camping and 3 delicious organic meals per day.
10% discount for full payment by June 29 and for Mendocino County residents.

This comprehensive workshop will give you hands-on experience in up to 10 different natural building techniques including cob, straw bale, slipstraw or light straw-clay, slip-and-chip, clay wattle, earthen plasters, hand-made paints, and more. The workshop [...]

[ May 30, 2009 to May 31, 2009. ]
Learn the valuable skill of building your own cob pizza/bread wood fired oven and bench in your backyard from sculptor Miguel Elliott of Living Earth Structures. Working with an existing stone foundation, we will build a luscious, inviting cob bench using adobe bricks made at an earlier cob workshop. in the center between [...]

[ May 1, 2009 to May 29, 2009. ] Starting 1 May 2009 onwards…

We have started the Zahara Urban Farm in Bali, Indonesia, and are building cob houses, walls and earth oven, etc. etc as well as a veggie garden etc..
Please get in contact with us if you are interested in helping with building up our adventure with cob in Bali….

[ June 14, 2009 to July 24, 2009. ]

For the fifth year, House Alive offers our popular 6 week natural building apprenticeship. This hands-on, intensive course is designed for people who want to use natural building skills in a professional context or who want to take extra time to work on skill development for their personal project. Participants will get first-hand experience with [...]

[ August 3, 2009 to August 7, 2009. ] Taught by Coenraad.

This 4 day workshop will teach you all you need to know in order to start your own project. You will learn how to find the right materials, how to mix them and how to build structures with cob. Previous participants have built benches, ovens, garden walls, and even complete cob cottages! Mornings [...]

[ June 29, 2009 to July 4, 2009. ] Cob building is learned quite easily by people from all walks of life. We work together, learn from each other and discover our connections through activity and reflection. This is an introductory level cob workshop.

Technical learning includes materials, recipes, building instruction, attaching doors/ windows, building arches. We start on foot and may introduce some [...]

[ July 13, 2009 to July 18, 2009. ] O.U.R. Ecovillage is a great place to learn. You can see finished examples of past seasons’ work and be inspired by communal life. This workshop is for those with some background in building, serious
intention for building or builders of another trade. Build efficiency, good detail and connections with other building elements. Understand materials and [...]

[ July 6, 2009 to July 26, 2009. ] All prices include meals and camping. Receive up to 25% discount for
advance payment.

[ May 30, 2009 to May 31, 2009. June 27, 2009 to June 28, 2009. ]

Hello Fellow Permi Folk-
I am offering two cob oven workshops this Spring in Bolinas, CA (On the coast, 45 min. North of the Golden Gate Bridge in West Marin Co.).
Below is the text from the attached Flyer.

BoTierra Farm
May 30 & 31
Sat. 9am-6pm, Sun. 9am-
$135

Gillyflower Nursery
June 27 & 28
Sat. 9am-6pm, Sun.
9am-
$135

*Nothing tastes quite like food baked [...]

[ June 21, 2009 to June 26, 2009. ]

[ May 9, 2009 to May 15, 2009. ]

[ April 4, 2009 9:00 pm to April 10, 2009 9:00 pm. ] MA’O Organic Farms