Events

[ July 31, 2010 to August 8, 2010. ] Join Diane Slutzky and Ryan Deuschle in the building of a cob courtyard bench with fireplace and cob oven. Over the course of 8 days you will learn the basics of building with cob, dry stacking stone or urbanite, plastering, and how to construct a roof to cover the bench and oven. The workshop will [...]

[ April 14, 2010 to September 14, 2010. ] Come live and work in our rural intentional community and join us in constructing our new Community House. Areas will include framing, natural wall systems, base coat and finish plasters, living roofs and finish carpentry. Visit www.emeraldearth.org or contact community@emeraldearth.org.

[ June 1, 2010 to September 1, 2010. ] We are a young couple building a 250 square foot strawbale and cob structure on our rural land in southeastern Virginia. We are offering flexible internship positions and short term volunteer opportunities during the summer of 2010. Experiences will range from laying stone, making cob, and applying earthen plaster, and all the steps between. Interested [...]

[ July 5, 2010 to August 29, 2010. ] House Alive! is again offering an opportunity for people to get beyond the basics and experience an extended Natural Building apprenticeship. This immensely popular 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 [...]

[ June 20, 2010 to August 20, 2010. ] Cobworks is currently seeking 4-6 apprentices to build with us this summer.
During the course, apprentices will learn how to:
build a dry-stack stone foundations while working with a minimal amount of
concrete
select and collect sustainable roundwood from forest
run a small bandsaw mill; turning logs to lumber
design and build a greywater system and composting toilet
learn to safely operate [...]