Archive for March, 2011

[ April 30, 2011; ] Using nothing but beautiful East Texas clay, sand, and straw we will build an Earthen Bread/Pizza Oven. Please be prepared to get your hands and feet dirty. We will be kneading clay with bare feet and sculpting the cob with our hands. Such fun!
Please bring a hat, work gloves, sunscreen, water canteen, and sturdy shoes.

[ May 28, 2011 to June 4, 2011. ] [gallery link="file"]

Cob work party up in a gorgeous canyon above the town of Magdalena in New Mexico.   You don’t need to be an experienced cobber, but what you do need is a fun attitude and the ability to rough it a bit and if you have any building/ carpentry  skills those will come in handy.  [...]

[ April 23, 2011; ] New Jura Natural Building | Texas Natural Builders

We will be building a custom cob oven for John Gonzales, beer brewer extraordinaire!!!!

Cob ovens are great for the best pizza’s you will ever eat!!!!
just about anything you make in a conventional oven can be made in a cob wood fired oven!

Itinerary:

8:00 am meet for for overview of [...]

[ April 9, 2011 to April 10, 2011. ] Freewill donation workshop in support of our electric car program. A vegetarian lunch and dinner are provided at this workshop where participants will learn about site planning, foundations, and will complete a cob bread oven except for plaster. Students will have skills to do their own small cob project.

[ May 22, 2011 to May 29, 2011. ]

Lime Foundation
Building Cob Walls
Sculptural Cob
Natural Plaster
Slip Straw

Lime Foundation -
Learn how to build an earth friendly, natural stone and lime mortared foundation, and ‘learn by doing’ as we build a foundation.
– Prep Stones
– Slake Lime
– Make Lime Mortar
– Shape Stone
– Lay Stone

Building Cob Walls -
During this part of the workshop we will learn how to build [...]

[ July 23, 2011 to August 31, 2011. ]
New Jura Natural Building in collaboration with Sustainable Homestead Designs is proud to announce another Pine Ridge Project, the last Pine Ridge Project was led by Coenraad Rogmans of House Alive and a beautiful cob/strawbale home was built, on this build we are going to build a 30′x30′ pallet house!!

Pallets are a huge waste material [...]

[ March 19, 2011; ] 12 noon- 5:00pm

Now the fun finish is here to beautify the new rocket oven with the earth. We’ll be learning just how to go about this task and make it simple for all. We’ll be embedding river rocks in the top section to match the wide variety of colored stones at the base. Call: [...]

[ September 24, 2011 to September 25, 2011. ] This workshop (held at Blue Rock Station Sustainable Living Farm in SE Ohio) is perfect for those folks who are thinking they might like to build a straw bale building one day – but are not yet ready to commit to spending their life’s savings and all their vacation time flying out west somewhere to [...]

[ May 28, 2011 to June 4, 2011. ] During this 7-day workshop (located in SE Ohio) we will work on two different projects (one we start from scratch – and the “one in the oven” that allows us to do finish work without having to wait for several weeks to allow everything to dry). This year we will build a 12 x [...]

[ July 2, 2011 to July 4, 2011. ] Take advantage of the July 4th holiday weekend for this very special 3-DAY version (a bit more in depth) of our popular basic (usually 2-day) Straw Bale Weekend Workshop!
This workshop (held at Blue Rock Station Sustainable Living Farm in SE Ohio) is perfect for those folks who are thinking they might like to build a [...]

[ March 12, 2011 to March 13, 2011. ]

Last week we were able to continue the next steps to a cleaner oven. It had rained two of the days, so we are rescheduling the workshop for this weekend. See things and learn what will be the start of many hybrid ovens and soon the rocket stove fireplace.

[ April 25, 2011 to April 30, 2011. ] Start Date / End Date:: 2011/04/25-2011/04/30Activate the paradigm shift and become aware of the impacts of your decisions. Move towards living a sustained lifestyle, not with timid baby steps, but by leaping forward!

These in-depth workshops, six days long each (Monday morning through Saturday evening), will run every full week of April, June and August of [...]

[ March 5, 2011 to March 6, 2011. ] Start Date / End Date:: March 5-6I just found out fireplaces are not being built in new homes anymore, because of CO2 emissions. The New Rocket Oven is the first step in sequestering CO2 and creating energy while doing it. This break through low technology is the future of wood burning, cooking, and education. Join [...]

[ February 19, 2011 to March 6, 2011. February 26, 2011; February 27, 2011; March 6, 2011; ] The New Rocket Oven Workshop
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What: A start to finish workshop series that will teach you the mechanics of rockets stoves, basics of oven construction, cob building, and earthen plastering. We will complete the series by firing up the rocket oven and [...]

[ March 25, 2011 to March 27, 2011. ] A weekend course for those in love with fire. Learn how fire burns, what makes combustion efficient, how to build the ultimate in snug, energy-saving campfires, stoves, and fireplaces for cooking and comfort, all hand-made at almost no cost.
Rocket Mass Heaters by Ianto Evans and Leslie Jackson has made these incredibly clean-burning wood burners big [...]