[Cob] Natural Building Colloquium Texas

[Mark Piepkorn]

Another one I'm excited about this year. It's the first time for this 
one, but shaping up to be a great event - held on the grounds of the 
annual Kerrville Folk Festival, a couple hours outside of Austin or 
San Antonio. See the website at http://www.naturalbuildingtexas.org/

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October 19-28, 2007
Quiet Valley Ranch in Kerrville, Texas

In the spirit of strengthening and expanding our community of natural 
builders, central Texas invites you to attend a Natural Building 
Colloquium, October 19-28. Colloquia are gatherings of people, 
ranging from experienced to simply curious, who come to learn from 
each other, to synergize their experience and to remind themselves of 
their larger vision.

In our case, the vision is of a lifestyle and building culture that 
could repeat itself indefinitely through successive generations. With 
careful searching many of us have concluded that the use of locally 
abundant, unprocessed materials such as earth, stone, straw and 
native timber provide the structure with which to achieve this 
vision. Cob, adobe, cob, earthbag, leichtlehm (straw-clay), 
strawbale, and timber frame are a few of the types of systems that 
exemplify this philosophy. Permaculture helps us integrate human 
patterns into the landscape surrounding our homes.

There are other important aspects as well: delicious food that 
nourishes the body, music, laughter, creativity, families of all 
sorts, eager minds and willing hands. We seek to create homes that 
comfort the body and lift the soul. If you possess or aspire to any 
of the above, we invite you to join us this fall.