| October 9, 2010 | to | October 16, 2010 |
Quail Springs Permaculture Farm
Instructor Sasha Rabin
http://www.quailsprings.org
This fall Quail Springs Learning Oasis and Permaculture Farm will host a long awaited 8-day natural building workshop taught by Sasha Rabin of 7 Generations Natural Builders and Vertical Clay.
WHEN: October 9-16, 2010
WHERE: New Cuyama, CA – Quail Springs Learning Oasis and Permaculture Farm in the Upper Cuyama Valley in Southern California
WHO IS THIS WORKSHOP FOR?
This workshop is designed for first-time builders, as well as professional builders and contractors who want to delve into building with natural materials.
WHAT WILL THE WORKSHOP OFFER?
We will join together to build a community bathhouse/sauna* with the teaching and guidance of Sasha Rabin. We will focus on earthen building, offering hands on experience with cob, light straw clay (slip straw), adobe block, and wattle and daub. Students will learn to smoothly integrate a variety of natural building materials to create the best possible building solution for each individual Situation. Sasha will demonstrate how to prospect and test for appropriate building sediment, how to mix cob,
various cob wall building techniques, the installation of windows into cob walls, methods for attachment of
wood (e.g. doors, roofs), and how to sculpt niches, shelves and furniture.
As a complement to the hands-on building portion of the course there will be slide shows and discussion
sessions about the philosophical and theoretical aspects of natural building. These sessions cover building design and siting, passive solar design, foundations and drainage, natural plasters and earthen floors, roofs, and electric and plumbing for earthen buildings. There will also be opportunity to gain some skills in simple wood working for those with minimal or no wood working experience.
*Project Description: Cob bathhouse & sauna with 2 inside showers and Dressing areas, 2 outside showers, interior bath and sauna space, attached greywater system and plantings.
SASHA RABIN has been building and teaching others to build with natural materials since co-founding Seven Generations Natural Builders in 2002, and is a partner in Vertical Clay. Sasha has a degree in Ecological Design from Evergreen State College and
apprenticed at the Cob Cottage Company. She has taught natural building classes at the Yestermorrow Design/Build School, The Solar Living Institute, and starting this year she will teach at the Institute of Urban Homesteading. She is currently living, learning and working on a suburban permaculture and natural building home and demonstration site in El Sobrante, CA (villasobrante.blogspot.com).
COST: $675 early bird by September 1 / $800 thereafter ($200 deposit holds your space). Includes the intensive, hands-on natural building workshop as well as catered homegrown & locally-grown organic food (our own goatmilk, cheeses, chicken, fresh eggs, and fall harvest vegetables), tent camping, swimming in the pond, nature walks, and after good days of Satisfying work – inspiring presentations, discussions on natural building, and high desert star gazing.
Referral opportunity: Receive $50 off the course fee when a participant registers who was referred by you.
The workshop is limited to 10 students and early registration is advised.
Contact to register: Kolmi at info@quailsprings.org or 805-886-7239
We look forward to sharing this harvest-time building-adventure with you!
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Quail Springs is a working farm dedicated to demonstrating and teaching holistic ways of designing human environments, and to facilitating deeper understandings of ourselves and one another through immersion experiences in nature. www.quailsprings.org
