The
in Austin TX
Earth, Timber, Straw, Lime, Permaculture
Natural Building Contracting and Workshops
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Social Distance
Earthen Building Series
with
Food for Thought Homestead
Sept - Dec 2020
Dream of building your own Natural cottage?
Ready to carefully emerge from hibernation? Join us for this falls workshop series with a wonderful chance to reinvigorate our minds and bodies with two new Natural Building projects for the
EARTHEN BUILDING FALL SERIES
with
'Food For Thought' Homestead
Volunteers - please email: contact@naturalneighborhoods.com
Teachers: Tim Fender and Thea Bryant
Weekends Sept 19-20, Sept 26-27 and Oct 10-11 COMPLETE
Students built and explored natural earthen wall systems and beginning earthen plaster techniques
Next Workshop - Earthen Plaster
November 7 9am-3pm
December dates TBA
LUNCH: Vegetarian and non-veg provided from the homestead and local farms
TUITIONS have been waived and volunteers are welcome
Spots are very limited for safety precautions.
More COVID PRECAUTIONS - Scroll down to bottom of page to read more
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Learn Lehmbau, BioSip and Shou Sugi ban and more....
This series covers topics to make your cottage more comfortable and easier to build. Plus save time, money, materials, energy and frustration. You'll get the chance to participate in building and using:
- Earthbag and rubble trench foundations
- Lehmbau, cob, Biopanel and strawbale walls
- Earthen and lime plasters
- Shou sugi ban charred wood preservation
- Greywater systems
- Simplest composting toilet process
In addition to the new and traditional building methods taught, students will get a chance to see Tim's working permaculture homestead and how it integrates with his own Lehmbau built home.
You'll learn Natural Building techniques of natural styles to make the building process as streamlined as possible for cottages that are super energy efficient, beautiful, with low environmental impact that are natural and nontoxic.
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What is Leicht Lehmbau (light-clay-straw or slipstraw)? What are BioSip panels and Shou Sugi Ban?
Lehmbau is a traditional process that is wonderfully accessible that combines the benefits of thermal mass earthen walls and highly insulated straw or cellulose walls making a wall that is suitable for a wide variety of climates. Leichtlembau uses a higher ratio straw to clay making an infill that is less dense than many other earthen walls.
With the inclusion of Lehmbau in the International Residential Code, this beautiful form of construction is accessible to more people than ever before in modern times.
BioSip panels are an exciting way that earthen homes are being built in Canada, New England and Europe that make the construction process more affordable, efficient and faster.
Shou Sugi Ban is a traditional Japanese wood preservation technique that is beautiful and durable.
All of these techniques are going to make this series really exciting!
OUR COVID PRECAUTIONS
We want to provide a safe and rewarding experience. With the Covid 19 recommendations, this workshop has very limited spots or camping available. If you are requesting camping we will contact you using the information from your registration to confirm availability.
Our goal will be to social distancing as much as possible by limiting the number of enrollees and preparing separate workstations, as well thorough handwashing. Masks will be voluntary while outside, which should be most of the time.
We are really looking forward to the much welcome reprieve from the heat and strange chaos and stagnation of quarantine and get dirty doing something invigorating, empowering and intriguing.
We are all rediscovering a different sense of community and we hope this series reinvigorates our minds and spirits even as we social distance responsibly.
If you are experiencing symptoms or have been exposed to someone with Covid please let us know and contact us to cancel. Thanks! Please reserve early to secure your spot..
