Cordwood Finnish Sauna
You’ve got some timber on your property and you’re ready to build, but you’re by yourself….
Cordwood building makes it possible to build with wood even if you don’t have a team or equipment to lift heavy beams necessary for timber framing while providing fantastic insulation. Join us in July for a weekend experience where you will learn the skills necessary to build your own cordwood structure.
Principles of Passive Solar Earth Sheltered Homes. (Aka Eartsh!ps)
Join in to learn and experience the key building techniques necessary to build an earthship-style home. Seeing it is one thing. Doing is another. Doing it right is yet another. Here you will gain key information to build can walls and forms, tire retaining walls and foundations, glass bottle bricks, cob, simple lime plasters, solar electric planning and most importantly all the mistakes we made so you can skip them. Spending energy to heat and cool vinyl clad homes is so 1900’s. It’s time to change the paradigm. Let’s do it a different and do it well!
Solar Organic Plunge Pool
Swimming Pools need lots of chlorine and electricity to stay clean, right? No way. Join our Solar Organic Plunge Pool Build to learn the concepts of how to build, balance and enjoy an organic pool that is filtered by plants and microbiology and circulated by solar generated air bubbles. This course assumes some previous building experience, but is open to all.
Cob Oven
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to build an oven. Maybe you want to build your own house. Or maybe you just love the idea of being resilient and self-sufficient. Join us as we explore one of the most versatile natural building materials on planet earth. In this workshop you’ll get to experience every step of the building process involved in making a wood-fired cob oven and enjoy food cooked in one as well!