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May
21-26

One week intensive Earthbag

Contact: calearth@aol.com
tel: +1 760 244 0614 fax: +1 760 244 2201

CalEarth
Hesperia, CA,
USA
$1,600
USD
May
22-25

Foundations & Walls - Earthbag & Cob

Come experience the design and construction of an earthen building near forest park. Have fun combining resource-consciousness, creativity, and construction skills in this start-to-finish series of hands-on workskhops. Learn to build quickly with rammed Earthbags. Sculpt shelves and niches with Cob, integrating all the pieces of a dwelling. You will learn everything you need to build structurally sound earthen dwellings using locally available Materials. The design is a 18 ft x 11 ft ellipse with a loft and a usable living roof space.

Earthenhand
Newberry, Portland, OR, USA
$325
USD
May
30-31

Walls, Windows & Loft - Earthbag & Cob

Come experience the design and construction of an earthen building near forest park. Have fun combining resource-consciousness, creativity, and construction skills in this start-to-finish series of hands-on workskhops. Learn to build quickly with rammed Earthbags. Sculpt shelves and niches with Cob, integrating all the pieces of a dwelling. You will learn everything you need to build structurally sound earthen dwellings using locally available Materials. The design is a 18 ft x 11 ft ellipse with a loft and a usable living roof space.

Earthenhand
Newberry, Portland, OR, USA
$225
USD
June
5-8

Building with Earthbags

Learning about earth bag foundations, domes and arches, clay plastering. Located at the Green Hamlet ecoVillage site. The site has a FREE camping field. There is a possibility to stay on as a volunteer on this site after the courses.

Contact Paulina on Tel: +44 (0)1932 352129

Earth Hands and Houses
Olsztyn, Poland

€100
June
8-12

One week intensive Earthbag

Contact: calearth@aol.com
tel: +1 760 244 0614 fax: +1 760 244 2201

CalEarth
Hesperia, CA,
USA
$1,600
USD
July
9-12

Building with Earthbags

Learning about earth bag foundations, domes and arches, clay plastering. Located in a forest with existing structures that include a small load bearing straw bale house and an earthbag dome covered in slats. The site also has a camping field.

Contact Paulina on Tel: +44 (0)1932 352129

Earth Hands and Houses
Lake ‘Hancza’, Poland

€100
Sept
5-7

An introduction to Natural building

An overview of building technologies such as earthbags, cordwood, cob, wattle & daub. The site has a camping field.

Contact Paulina on Tel: +44 (0)1932 352129

Earth Hands and Houses
Warsaw, Poland

€100
May 9

Earthbag Workshop

Earthbag building is also known as “flexible form rammed earth.” It is among the most affordable and environmentally friendly forms of building, and is easy to learn. During one day, hands-on workshop we’ll construct an earthbag foundation for a small building. We’ll cover acquiring the necessary materials, mixing the soil for making rammed earth, laying out a foundation and actually building the earthbag perimeter beam.

Wholearth
Hastings, ON,
Canada
$150 CND
       
  Courses you've missed in 2009 but they are keep here so that you can browse around the various organisations    
       
May
1-3

Building with Earthbags

Learning about earth bag foundations, domes and arches, clay plastering. Located in a forest with existing structures that include a small load bearing straw bale house and an earthbag dome covered in slats. The site also has a camping field.

Contact Paulina on Tel: +44 (0)1932 352129

Earth Hands and Houses
Warsaw, Poland

€100
       
  Courses you've missed in 2008 but they are keep here so that you can browse around the various organisations    
       
2008 Earthbag - New courses to be posted in January

Contact: calearth@aol.com
tel: +1 760 244 0614 fax: +1 760 244 2201

CalEarth
Hesperia, CA,
USA
 
May
23-25
Building with Earthbags / sandbags workshop - Learning about earth bag foundations, domes and arches, clay plastering and painting with lime.

Contact Paulina on Tel: +44 (0)1932 352129

Earth Hands and Houses
Warsaw, Poland

€100
June
4-5
Building with Earthbags / sandbags workshop - Building earthbag foundations for a straw bale structure.

Contact Paulina on Tel: +44 (0)1932 352129

Earth Hands and Houses
Warsaw, Poland

€70
June
15-20
Earthbag Workshop 1 - Learn to build the first code approved earthbag dome home in Kentucky. Built in an intentional community, the techniques of earthbag construction and planning will be covered along with discussion of site and foundation preparation. This workshop offers plenty of on-site lessons to help participants learn the tools, tricks, and techniques of constructing with earthbags. Hands-on opportunities will help participants to gain a feel for the nature of dirt, clay, lime, and sawdust as building materials as well as earthbag as a technique for residential construction. Contact philhawnnc@excite.com for more details.

Home Grown Hideaways
Kentucky, USA
$500 USD
July
18-20

Building with Earthbags / sandbags workshop - Learning about earth bag foundations, domes and arches, clay plastering and painting with lime.

Contact Paulina on Tel: +44 (0)1932 352129

Earth Hands and Houses
Near lake Hancza, North East Poland

€100
June
22-27
Earthbag Workshop 2 - Learn to build the first code approved earthbag dome home in Kentucky. Built in an intentional community, the techniques of earthbag construction and planning will be covered along with discussion of site and foundation preparation. This workshop offers plenty of on-site lessons to help participants learn the tools, tricks, and techniques of constructing with earthbags. Hands-on opportunities will help participants to gain a feel for the nature of dirt, clay, lime, and sawdust as building materials as well as earthbag as a technique for residential construction. Contact philhawnnc@excite.com for more details.

Home Grown Hideaways
Kentucky, USA
$500 USD
July
13-18
Earthbag Plaster - Like any building, earthen structures need to be protected from the elements. Earthbag construction poses its own unique challenges and working within the dome structure creates many unique learning opportunities. This workshop will cover materials, mixing techniques, troweling and texturing, and using pigments to color plaster. Contact philhawnnc@excite.com for more details.

Home Grown Hideaways
Kentucky, USA
$500 USD