EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES

because travel is a fossil fuel intensive activity we encourage everyone to attend the workshop that is closest to your home. Check www.cobworkshops.org for a complete listing of natural building workshops.

click on workshop name for more information.

2008 WORKSHOPS
Cob Sanctuary
w/ Sara Schmidt and Jarrod Spencer
May 31- June 7
(April 15 early registration deadline)
Iredell, TX
(between Dallas and Austin)
Workshops can create friendships and networks you will enjoy for years.
(photo: workshop Coquille, OR)
Taking a workshop provides you with the experience and skills to take on a small scale project of your own and enables you to connect with other like minded people.
(photo: House Alive workshop in Jacksonvile, OR)

Volunteering

Three years of workshops in the central US has left a wake of unfinished natural building projects: five in Texas, one in Oklahoma and one in New Mexico. The sobering message there is that workshops do not build buildings. Kindra has declared 2008 the year of finishing un-finished projects...therefore she will not personally teach a full length workshop (aka start another unfinished project) until a few of those are ready for occupation ... but volunteer opportunities abound on the weekends. Please email Kindra to get on the mailing list to learn when and where the action will take place. Volunteering is a very low key way to experience a project in the construction phase. It is not intended to, and cannot pretend to offer, the full density learning experience of a workshop.

WORKSHOP PHOTO ARCHIVES
WORKSHOP
DATE
LOCATION
Natural Building Colloquium, TX
(10-day conference with hands on workshops in many natural building techniques)
Oct 19-28, 2007
Kerrville, TX
Hybrid Home Builder
Frank Meyer and Kindra Welch
(cob & strawbale - 7 day)
May12-19, 2007
Tulsa,OK
Cob Sampler: "Cob Camp on Ice"
(cob, earthen plaster, floors)
April 6-8, 2007
Fredericksburg, Texas

Earthen Plasters and Finishes
WITH CAROLE CREWS

July 29-Aug 5, 2006

Black Lake ,NM
Cob Home Builder
April 22-29 2006
Fredericksburg, Texas