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Evergreen, CO

Instructors: Dane Slutzky and Ryan Deuschle

Tuition $250

Join Dane Slutzky and Ryan Deuschle in the building of a cob courtyard bench with fireplace and cob oven. Over the course of 8 days you will learn the basics of building with cob, dry stacking stone or urbanite, plastering, and how to construct a roof to cover the bench and oven. The workshop will also cover general permaculture principles and how a building integrates with the landscape. Instruction will be hands on learning with some lecture and discussion time.

The workshop will be held in Evergreen, CO (approx. 1 hr from Denver). Camping is available and the Brook Forest Inn is located minutes away if you require more comfort.

In order to lower our price and make the workshop more accessible, meals will be pot-luck style, and participants are encouraged to bring their own tools that they can then use on future building projects.

There are only 8 openings for the workshop so get in soon! For more information contact: Ryan at engageinlife@gmail.com or 541-982-2695

Zenshaus Lychen, 90km from Berlin, Germany

Instructor Max Vittrup Jensen and Sara Tommerup

http://permalot.org/en/cob-workshop-berlin

Tuition From 375 to 525 Euro

We’ll be building a Rumford fireplace as well as a rocket mass oven with a heated bed and a very long bench at an amazing beautiful location in the forest by Zensee, some 90 km from Berlin. We’ll also make an earthen bread/pizza oven, start a cob structure and likely some initial layers for an earthen floor.

The workshop may appear expensive, however there’s plenty of discounts for early registrations, couples/groups etc.

Cob is an old English word for a building material which is a mixture of straw and sand/clay, and it was ‘re-discovered’ by Ianto Evans of the Cob Cottage Company.

Ianto also developed the rocket mass oven, which is one of the most effective ways to burn wood to heat mass. It burns like a rocket, and it seriously provokes you to rethink everything you ever thought you knew about fire; drafts, chimneys, etc. It’s all outlined in this book, which also is available as a pdf. We will be creating an extremely long Rocket Mass Heating bench.

When Count Rumford returned to London many years ago, he found that the city was unbearably smoky. Consequently, he set about developing a vastly superior design for the traditional open-hearth fireplace. With the Rumford fireplace, the 3 walls reflect a maximum of the heat into the room, while the ‘throat’ circulates the wood-gasses (thereby eliminating a great deal of the smoke). The Rumford we’ll make is made from a few fire bricks and cob, which allows for a lot of creativity in the design.

Last but not least: Cob is a wonderful material, but very labour intensive as it’s usually mixed by feet; in the olden days by the hooves of horses, in modern times by the feet of dancing people. We will be doing the mud dance, however we will also have a German premiere of the Czech invented cob machine.

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Woodbury, Tennessee

Learn to build a beautiful fireplace outdoors or in any cob building. You can have a gorgeous outdoor fireplace to rival any, and best of all you can build it using almost all free and recycled materials! * This workshop includes lunch and overnight camping if requested. See pictures of the fireplace we built in the last workshop

Cost: $75

(850) 982-2597

http://www.barefootbuilder.com/upcoming.htm

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

We will build an outdoor Rumford fireplace and garden wall using natural and recycled materials. Cost: € 175,- incl. organic vegetarean lunches. Contact +31224298729. www.buildingtraditions.eu/en/agenda