Title: Natural Building Workshops with Michael Smith
Location: Boonville, CA
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Description: I’ve got two week-long natural building workshops coming up in the next few months. There are still openings in both of them, and I would appreciate help getting the word out quickly, since the first workshop which is coming up in just a couple of weeks. Both workshops cover multiple wall systems using earth and straw as well as earthen plasters and more. They will be excellent opportunities to learn a lot of natural building systems in a short time, including techniques that are appropriate for remodeling existing structures.
The first is June 14-19 in Covelo (Northern Mendocino County)
We’ll be building a bath house/sauna addition to a straw bale house on a small herb farm. Wall systems will be cob, slipstraw or light straw-clay, clay wattle, and wattle and daub. The cost of the workshop is $450-$600 sliding scale, including all meals and camping. For more info or to register, phone Monelle at 707-354-0176 or email gaiaspirit9@gmail.com.
The second is August 7-14 here at Emerald Earth
We’ll mainly be working on our new common house, a large to-code hybrid building which is about halfway done. We’ll be building cob, slipstraw, clay wattle, and slip-and-chip walls, as well as building an earthbag retaining wall, pouring an earthen floor, doing base and finish earthen plasters and clay aliz paint. The cost is $640 including all meals and camping. For more details, see our web site: www.emeraldearth.org, email workshops@emeraldearth.org, or call 707-972-3096.
peace and gratitude,
Michael G. Smith
Start Date: 2010-08-07
End Date: 2010-08-13
