Bats
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Created: Jun 01, 2008
Updated: Nov 21, 2009
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Natural Building Intensive
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Natural Building Intensive
July 26- August 2
Instructors: Michael G. Smith, Darryl Berlin, and friends
Cost: $760 includes camping and 3 delicious organic meals per day. 10% discount for full payment by June 29 and for Mendocino County residents.
This comprehensive workshop will give you hands-on experience in up to 10 different natural building techniques including cob, straw bale, slipstraw or light straw-clay, slip-and-chip, clay wattle, earthen plasters, hand-made paints, and more.
The workshop aims to familiarize students with the basic family of natural building materials: clay or earth, straw, wood, and stone, and what can be accomplished with each alone and in combination with the others.
At least half of each day is spent in hands-on building with a high ratio of experienced instructors. Lectures and discussions cover passive solar and other design principles for energy-efficient, compact natural homes.
There will also be an extensive tour of the most complete natural building demonstration site on the West Coast, with an emphasis on ecological materials harvesting, off-grid electrical generation, greywater reclamation, composting toilets, and more.
Evening slide presentations and videos, a sauna and a dip in our pond, and wood-fired pizza from our earthen oven round out this 8-day intensive experience.
