Events

[ July 22, 2012 to July 26, 2012. ] This 5 day workshop includes mixing, building, and shaping with cob, as well as foundation work and plaster finishing techniques. Open to all ages. LET’S GET MUDDY!

[ July 7, 2012 to July 8, 2012. ] Learn the basics of cob ingredients, mixing, and tools. Get dirty this weekend perfecting your cob techniques and making friends. Open to all ages.

[ June 22, 2012 to June 26, 2012. ] This 5 day workshop includes mixing, building, and shaping with cob, as well as foundation work and plaster finishing techniques. Open to all ages.

[ April 5, 2012 to April 8, 2012. ]

Natural Stone Foundation
Load Bearing Cob Walls,
Natural Plasters & Paints,
Earthen (Adobe) Floor

As much as is reasonably possible, we try to prepare you to be able to go home from our workshops and build your own home.

We will build a lime mortared foundation suitable for a cob structure. You will learn everything you need to know to [...]

[ June 2, 2012 to June 3, 2012. ] Start Date / End Date:: June 2-3, 2012

Learn the basics of cob ingredients, mixing, and tools. Get dirty this weekend perfecting your cob techniques and making friends. Open to all ages.

[ July 7, 2012 to July 8, 2012. ] Learn the basics of cob ingredients, mixing, and tools. Get dirty this weekend perfecting your cob techniques and making friends. Open to all ages.

[ August 2, 2012 to August 6, 2012. ] This 5 day workshop includes mixing, building, and shaping with cob, as well as foundation work and plaster finishing techniques. Open to all ages. LET’S GET MUDDY!

[ August 24, 2012 to August 26, 2012. ] Explore different natural materials available for plasters and renders. Learn and practice prepping, mixing and applying plasters.

[ July 29, 2012 to September 14, 2012. ] The Sustainable Shelter Workshop Series is a 7 week course designed to empower participants with the ability to design/build/renovate their own home using simple techniques and natural, vernacular materials. During this course we will start from the ground and move up teaching not only the art/science of natural building and green design, but the corresponding [...]

[ August 5, 2012 to August 25, 2012. ] During these three weeks you will construct a sauna and, time permitting, a cob oven, from start to finish. As part of this program you will learn the basics of making a foundation, building four different wall systems with materials including cob, straw bale, light-straw-clay and cob-cordwood, and constructing a living roof. In addition you [...]

[ December 17, 2011; ] 10:00am – dark

Southern California just had a 100 year wind event that caused major tree damage. There are no written plans for the fallen trees, except bring them to the landfill and burry them or burn them which adds to global climate change. Let’s show the city what can be done to create green jobs [...]

[ July 22, 2012 to August 2, 2012. ] Come join us in July 2012 for a comprehensive straw bale building workshop at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage, where you will learn valuable skills you need to know to build your own straw bale home. You’ll get hands-on experience stacking, securing, and pinning bales, and plastering the walls with local clay. Enjoy and learn from the [...]

[ June 8, 2012 to June 17, 2012. ] 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, [...]

[ June 10, 2012 to June 23, 2012. ] 2012 Timber Framing Workshop students will spend two full weeks at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage in Rutledge, Missouri learning the historic craft of timber framing using mortise and tenon joinery, as well as experiencing and learning some of the fundamental connections between natural building design and sustainable lifestyle alternatives.

Students will learn various timber frame layout techniques, [...]

[ March 10, 2012 to March 17, 2012. ] We will be teaching a 7 day cob cobwood workshop detailing how to build a free standing exterior shower and bath house utilizing this method of natural building.

Cordwood/Cobwood masonry’s origins are unknown. There are some homes in Canada that are between 100 and 200 years old. In the United States, there’s a house at the [...]