House Alive! Natural Building Apprenticeship

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 every aspect of building a natural home, from the foundation to the roof. This program will be almost exclusively “hands-on” learning. The best way to learn how to build is simply to build, and the more you do it the more you learn. Participants will be able to take the time to develop and practice new skills under the guidance of experienced natural builders. On occasion guest builders will visit the site to teach specific techniques. Throughout the course we’ll be working on the different elements of building a 200 sq. ft. cob cabin from the ground up. Demonstrations and instruction will be given as needed to explain building techniques and design choices. Participants should expect full and exciting days.