One-day VersaTerra Primer Two Dates: Saturday, May 15th & Saturday, May 22nd, 2021 Location: House Alive homestead, Jacksonville, Oregon Cost: $85 Includes our book “House of Earth” wood-fired pizza and music Bring your own sack lunch and B.Y.O.B for the pizza party Class size: 18 Go here to see the House Alive Covid Policy Join us for a day of learning, mixing materials and seeing all the things you can do with earthen construction. This one-day class is a perfect introduction to building with earth…

Complete Cob & Natural Building Workshop with Earthen Oven This workshop is offered through the “Be the Change Project“ Go here for the full workshop description & House Alive/Be the Change Project Covid Policy Maximum Class Size: 12 students Instructors: Kyle Isacksen with Katy Chandler, Jonathan Vocke and Kathleen O’Brien Cost: $2500​ This includes all meals (vegetarian with meat options on occasion), coffee & tea, a lovely place to pitch your tent, our book “House of Earth” (we’ll send you a copy before the…

We introduced this Short Course in 2019 and it has been a great success since. You’ll get a full sense of our Fast Cob technique, and you’ll know how to finish buildings naturally, from base layer to finish layer and even whitewash. Everything we use is completely natural and everything you learn can be done anywhere on the planet. Just be warned, this short course is not enough to go off and start building a home on your own without…

$625 Early Bird Discount (register before April 15th, 2020) $750 Regular Fee 10% discount for family + friends participating together! This is the combination of our 2-day Foundations offering, and our 3-Day Immersion course (see all our offerings on our website, www.muddauberbuilding.com). Many participants who leave our Immersion courses have asked for more opportunities to practice foundation-building skills, as it is a very important and sometimes intimidating part of a long-lasting building. Join us for the full experience of both…

$250 Early Bird Discount (register before April 15th, 2020) $300 Regular Fee 10% discount for family + friends participating together! Join us to learn the basics of building a long-lasting, stable foundation. We will be building a foundation for a natural garden wall. After completing excavation work, and installing a rubble-trench footing system, we will then move on to construct three different stem-wall systems: CMUs (concrete blocks), poured concrete, and dry-stacked stone. You will learn:  –       excavating for a foundation…

$375 Early Bird Discount (register before April 15th, 2020) $450 Regular Fee 10% discount for family + friends participating together! We will cover a lot of material in 3 days! Our focus will be on continuing work on the garden wall that surrounds our dining/gathering space. This includes completing the top of an existing wall with cob, building a completely new portion of wall with cob, strawbale, and slip-straw wall systems, and applying earthen and lime plasters. If time allows,…

$125 Early Bird Discount (register before May 5th, 2020) $150 Regular Fee 10% discount for family + friends participating together! Join us in constructing a garden wall on our campus, using the clay from beneath our feet and straw from a local farmer! This is a great beginner project that provides you with the basic knowledge of how to build a strong, long-lasting cob wall. We will mix and build with cob all morning, and then get our hands dirty…

$375 Early Bird Discount (register before May 5th, 2020) $450 Regular Fee 10% discount for family + friends participating together! We will cover a lot of material in 3 days! Our focus will be on continuing work on the garden wall that surrounds our dining/gathering space. This includes completing the top of an existing wall with cob, building a completely new portion of wall with cob, strawbale, and slip-straw wall systems, and applying earthen and lime plasters. If time allows,…

$125 Early Bird Discount (register before May 5th, 2020) $150 Regular Fee 10% discount for family + friends participating together! Join us in constructing a garden wall using the clay from beneath our feet and straw from a local farmer! This is a great beginner project that provides you with the basic knowledge of how to build a strong, long-lasting cob wall. We will mix and build with cob all morning, and then get our hands dirty with natural plasters…

The focus of this class will be the construction of a cob bread/pizza oven from start to finish. Students will build the stone foundation, firebrick hearth, cob dome structure, and finish the oven with earthen plasters. In addition, we will build a cob bench, plaster an existing straw bale building, and complete the living roof of an adjacent structure. What to expect: Our days will be spent engaged in hands-on building and learning with natural materials. Expect a rich week…

Dates: June 21 – June 25, 2021 (YES. We are still having the workshop as scheduled.) Location: Jonesborough, Tennessee Come and join us in beautiful eastern Tennessee for our next Introduction to Cob Workshop! We will be constructing a cob house. A perfect project for beginners and experts alike! You will get the knowledge to build cob projects scaling from smaller things, such as cob ovens and benches, up to large projects like homes and buildings. This workshop is a…

$375 Early Bird Discount (register before May 5th, 2020) $450 Regular Fee 10% discount for family + friends participating together! We will cover a lot of material in 3 days! Our focus will be continuing work on a meditation hut and a natural garden wall, at a beautiful rural property near Saxapahaw, NC (about 20 minutes from the Mud Dauber Campus). This includes learning all of the basics of building with cob and straw wall systems, as well as mixing…

VersaTerra Workshop with Earthen Oven Go here for full workshop description including our Covid Policy Maximum Class Size: 16 students Instructors: Conrad Rogue & Kyle Isacksen Location: The House Alive homestead, Jacksonville, Oregon Cost: $1400 This includes all (vegetarian) meals, coffee & tea, a nice place to pitch your tent, our book “House of Earth” (we’ll send you a copy before the workshop in the Spring), transportation to & from Medford airport/bus terminal.  Overview This is the most comprehensive natural…