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Sustainable Living Apprenticeships in Costa Rica!
The Sustainable Living Apprenticeship Program is geared toward those who want to immerse themselves into learning sustainable living techniques. Our rigorous curriculum offers you the hands-on experience to build your own home, start a business building for others, or kick-start a teaching career in the green industry. We offer a range of earth building techniques which utilize local, recycled, and low cost materials. Our goal is to give you the skills and guide you on the path toward self-sufficiency. Our…
Find out more »2017 Apprenticeship in Natural Building
The Natural Living School May 1st – October 31st. $800 Month The Natural Living School is looking for highly motivated students interested in making natural building a career. Students get hands on experience as well as class time. Participants will learn how to build a natural structure to code. For more information on our programs visit our website or give us a call. www.naturallivingschool.com Pablo: 530-277-8127
Find out more »SUMMER WORKTRADE IN ASHEVILLE
[SUMMER WORKTRADE IN ASHEVILLE] Come live, learn, work & grow with us! Beautiful Eco-Urban Homestead & Goddess Sanctuary. Downtown Asheville neighborhood. Bordering 60 acres of woods & trails. Awesome community of women. HANDS-ON: Gardening + site maintenance + general tasks. Give 4 hours work/day. Get a place to camp on site, gardening & herbalism classes, organic goodies from the gardens, wifi, laundry & a naturally-treated hot tub! ELIGIBILITY: You must be responsible, clean, tidy & have some gardening/farming background. No…
Find out more »6-MONTH RESIDENTIAL INTERNSHIP
[6-MONTH RESIDENTIAL INTERNSHIP] Asheville, NC. 3 positions available >> Live, learn & grow with us at a beautiful Eco-Urban Homestead & Goddess Sanctuary. You will gain experience in the full spectrum of what we do: hands-on gardening, homesteading, site maintenance, seasonal tasks & house care. Camping, garden goodies & classes are provided. Some previous experience is necessary. For details & application, visit www.ashevillage.org/residential-internship
Find out more »Earth and Sun Sustainable Builders An Earth Bag Building Workshop
Earth and Sun Sustainable Builders An Earth Bag Building Workshop Taos, New Mexico May 30 – September 29, 2017 earthandsunsustainablebuilders.com Learn sustainable building practices while participating in a hands-on earth bag building project. Co-create with a conscious community. We’ll build an affordable, off-grid home within the local building codes. Be guided from thought form through finished building — literally from the ground up with earth bag walls, conventional metal roof, solar electric, and passive solar. Women and men with varied…
Find out more »Intro To Natural Building Summer Series
Join Earth Feathur and the Collective for a day off grid in nature. Learn the basics of beginning a natural building project with clay straw sand and water. Mix natural indgredients with hands and feet. Play in the mud. Make a small pot or cob ball to take home. A Plant Based Lunch is included. All participants are expected to get messy. So wear something you don’t mind getting messy. Bring a water bottle. All ages are welcome. Youth admission $10…
Find out more »Earthbag Building Workshop in Taos New Mexico by Earth and Sun Sustainable Builders
CO-CREATE A SUSTAINABLE EARTHBAG HOME JUNE 26 – OCT. 27, 2017 TAOS, NEW MEXICO Join for a week to four months. Earthbag building is an environmentally friendly and affordable building method suitable to most climates and geographies. Building blocks are made with soil collected on the building site and contained in polypropylene woven bags. In certain circumstances the bags are filled with other materials such as gravel, pumice, or sand. The bags can also be made of natural fibers such…
Find out more »Kids Cob Camp and Building with COB 101
~ Soil Tests & Cob Brick Tests ~ Mixing and Building with Cob ~ Earthen and Lime Plasters ~ Waterproof, Tadelakt Plaster ~ Earthen (Adobe) Floor ~ Kids Cob Camp Soil Tests While there are volumes written about soil tests, nothing beats getting your hands in the mud to get the feel of it. To check quality and quantity of clay, we will conduct the snake test, a cut test, and a shake test. You will ‘Learn by Doing,’ and go home with…
Find out more »Cobworks Saltspring Island July workshop
Cobworks is heading back to the Gulf Islands this summer! Patrick Hennebery will lead a 10 day cob workshop on Salt Spring Island from July 3rd to 14th. The course will take place at The Paradise Within, a sustainably-minded farm near Fulford Harbour. Please join us for some fun in the mud as we learn the skills and cover theory topics to answer all of your questions about earthen building. Our project this year will be the construction of a…
Find out more »Natural Building Apprenticeship Program
The Natural Builder’s Apprenticeship Program is advanced training in natural building; it has been designed as an introduction for people who want to make their livelihood from natural building, as builders, instructors and/or what have you. Apprentices will experience an intensive building curriculum during their time with us. We teach a wide selection of powerful natural building techniques, stepping through the building process, from design to finish. Part of Sundog’s philosophy in building is continually asking how to maximize smart…
Find out more »COB, BaleCob, Light Straw Clay Extravaganza!
(Save 15% by booking in May $748, normal price $880 includes all meals and camping.) Join us at our neighborhood location in beautiful Bandon by the Sea for the most comprehensive cob course available in North America where we will teach a 9 day intensive. We will also including an extensive tour at our Cob Cottage complex in Coquille.This course will not only cover Cob and balecob, but we will also experience an array of various natural building wall systems including light…
Find out more »Building a Cob Oven
Earliest Bird: $150 (90 days advance payment) Early Bird: $175 (30 days advance payment) Regular Rate: $200 Additional 10% discount for family or friends participating together! Over the weekend, join us to build a completed cob oven. Earthen ovens are used to cook pizza, bread, meat, cookies, granola, roasted veggies, baked beans etc… anything that you could put in a conventional oven. And the flavor from the wood heat is incredible! On Saturday, we will begin by finishing…
Find out more »Introduction to Cob Workshop
Dates: July 10 – July 14, 2017 Location: Keystone Heights, Florida Come and join us down in sunny Florida this summer for our Introduction to Cob Workshop! We will be constructing a small cob cottage. A perfect project for beginners and experts alike! This workshop is a great experience to learn how to build with cob and to get a broad learning overview of natural building techniques. You will get a solid foundation in cob building fundamentals. We will…
Find out more »Building a Cob Outdoor Kitchen & Oven in southern Portugal
Location & Project Quinta do Rabo de Palha is a 7-hectare parcel just outside of the city of Castro Verde, in the Lower Alentejo region of southern Portugal. This region is traditionally known for raising free-ranging cattle, sheep and goats and growing grain for feed. The plains in this part of the Alentejo are extensive and far-ranging. Several protected bird species like the buzzard (otis tarda) and the “peneireiro das torres” live here. Birdwatchers love to frequent this area. Susana…
Find out more »9-Day Complete Cob Workshop
The Sundog 9-day workshop is designed to teach ordinary people the skills to build their own cob cottages, from the foundation to the roof. Our projects are small, mostly under 200 square feet, geared towards attaining a high level of completion in a short amount of time. We’ll take you through an intensive, step by step, instructional course on how to: site/design, excavate, build a foundation, build the walls, AND get the roof assembled on a small cob cottage.
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