at White Oak Farm & Education Center
With Jim Haim of Cob Together and Taylor Starr of White Oak Farm
Friday July 20 - Monday July 23
Join us in July as we sculpt a small cottage in the woods. In this weekend workshop you will have the opportunity to get your hands (and feet) dirty mixing and building with cob, stuffing light-straw-clay, and making and applying earthen plasters. Lectures and discussions will also cover: straw bale building, design basics, foundations, roofs, and more. We will have the opportunity to tour a hybrid pole frame-straw bale-cob home, a straw bale-cob sauna, and a cob oven. Participants will walk away from this weekend with the techniques and principles needed to begin building with natural materials.
Working with natural materials for four days allows learning to take hold in your body. During this workshop you will learn how to test soil for building, mix cob, build cob walls, and learn the basics of earthen plastering, light-straw-clay, and straw bale building.
The Workshop Starts at 9am Friday July 20. Out of town participants are welcome to arrive Thursday evening between 5pm and 10pm. The workshop ends at 4pm on Monday July 23.
Cost: This four day workshop costs $300.
For more information please contact the Farm: info@whiteoakfarmcsa.org.