[Cob] Natural Building Workshops with Michael Smith

[Shannon Dealy]

Here are two workshop opportunities with Michael Smith, co-author of "The 
Hand Sculpted House" and the person who originally taught me cob about 15 
years ago:

Two workshops, both cover multiple wall systems using earth and straw as 
well as earthen plasters and more. They will be excellent opportunities to 
learn a lot of natural building systems in a short time, including 
techniques that are appropriate for remodeling existing structures.

The first is June 14-19 in Covelo (Northern Mendocino County)

We'll be building a bath house/sauna addition to a straw bale house
on a small herb farm. Wall systems will be cob, slipstraw or light
straw-clay, clay wattle, and wattle and daub. The cost of the
workshop is $450-$600 sliding scale, including all meals and camping.
For more info or to register, phone Monelle at 707-354-0176 or email
gaiaspirit9 at gmail.com.

The second is August 7-14 here at Emerald Earth

We'll mainly be working on our new common house, a large to-code
hybrid building which is about halfway done. We'll be building cob,
slipstraw, clay wattle, and slip-and-chip walls, as well as building
an earthbag retaining wall, pouring an earthen floor, doing base and
finish earthen plasters and clay aliz paint. The cost is $640
including all meals and camping. For more details, see our web site:
www.emeraldearth.org, email workshops at emeraldearth.org, or call
707-972-3096.



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