$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 […]

$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! […]

$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, […]

$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! […]

$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 […]

In this class we will build a wood-fired cob bread/pizza oven from start to finish. Students will build the stone foundation, firebrick hearth, cob structure, and finish the oven with […]

This class is designed to be a broad overview of natural building techniques. The class includes participating in the cob oven workshop, and continues with a more thorough immersion into […]

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 […]

$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! […]

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 […]

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 […]

PROJECT We will be building a complete 6m2 to 7m2 sauna (depending on number of students) from foundation to roof in 3 weeks with 15 days of workshop learning and […]

Learn to make and apply your own earth-based finish materials as we put the finishing touches on an earth and straw bale building! We will make earth plaster from site-harvested […]

– Cob – Straw Bale – Light Straw Clay – Slip and Chip – Ricecrete – Mushroom blocks – and more! ... Instructors: Michael G. Smith, Colin Gillespie, Blair Phillips […]

PROJECT This 3-week workshop offers students the opportunity to design and build a clay-based wood-fired cooking complex. Using locally sourced materials, students will collaborate to create a traditional ‘beehive’ oven […]

In this permaskills Natural Building Workshop we are building an outdoor kitchen, an earthen oven for Lotte and Floris' in central Portugal. There are no skill requirements. You will learn […]

Come and experience our small natural building community in the cloud forests of El Salvador´s highest mountain! This workshop is being hosted by the Clouds of El Pital Eco-Tourism Collective. […]

Dates: August 23 – August 27, 2021 (YES. We are still having the workshop as scheduled.) Location: Jonesborough, Tennessee Come and join us in beautiful eastern Tennessee for our next […]

The Fundamentals of Fast Cob At a relaxed pace, we'll learn and practice mixing and building Fast Cob.  As the week progresses, you'll gain the skills, confidence, and inspiration to […]

This workshop will be the longest, most diverse and most comprehensive one we have yet offered to our students. We will be completing a 2-story building with a criptomeria (local […]