Barrel Oven at Quail Springs

November 15, 2012 / By Eva

Barrel Oven at Quail Springs

BUILD A BARREL OVEN AT BEAUTIFUL QUAIL SPRINGS PERMACULTURE!!!
In this workshop students will learn how to build (and use) a barrel oven from the ground up!

Quail Springs Permaculture is an educational and land stewardship nonprofit organization dedicated to demonstrating and teaching holistic ways of designing human environments, restoring and revitalizing the land and community, and facilitating deeper understandings of ourselves and one another through immersive experiences in nature.

We believe that lasting ecological health and social harmony can be fostered through emphasizing the connection between people, food, shelter, energy, and water.CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE BARREL OVEN!!

Dates: December 7, 2013 – December 8, 2013

Cost:

Location: Maricopa, CA

Additional Details:

Please contact eva@firespeaking.com if you are interested in this workshop!

Plasters, Paints & Pigments

October 12, 2012 / By Eva

Plasters, Paints & Pigments

Learn how to make and apply your own natural plasters and paints!
We will be applying durable finishes to cob, straw-clay and conventionally painted drywall.
See how gorgeous your walls can be!!!

See last year’s poster for this class:

Dates: October 12, 2013 – October 13, 2013

Cost: Cost: 125

Location: Bandon, OR

Additional Details:

Please contact eva@firespeaking.com if you are interested in this course.

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Barrel Oven Workshop at Poor Orphan Creamery

September 28, 2012 / By Eva

Barrel Oven Workshop at Poor Orphan Creamery

Learn to build your own barrel oven at this beautiful goat cheese creamery! The oven will be located IN the creamery tasting room!

Poor Orphan Creamery produces farmstead ewe’s milk cheese from our flock of Icelandic sheep, and artisan cheese made with milk from local goat and cow dairies. Our artisan workshops strive to re|connect people with their food—from the ground up, big sky down, and inside out.

The Creamery has designed and built Montana’s first grade A portable milking parlor that can follow the sheep as they graze on surrounding land trust pastures in exchange for weed and fire control. Our business serves to provide a template for a resurgence in small farm dairies and promote rural communities.

Dates: September 28, 2013 – September 29, 2013

Cost:

Location: Laurin, Montana

Additional Details:

The cost of workshop includes $50 off a barrel oven kit and a free book.
Contact Lark at 406-842-7100
Or register now at www.outdoorbarreloven.brownpapertickets.com

Barrel Oven at Jean’s Farm

September 13, 2012 / By Eva

Barrel Oven at Jean’s Farm

Learn to build a barrel oven at a beautiful farm! Jean’s Urban Forest Farm has a rich history and is a beautiful, abundant farm right in the city of Portland. We will be building a barrel oven from the ground up which will serve to cook many meals for student groups, parties and other special gatherings. All with fresh, nutritious food from the farm!! This barrel oven will join an existing earth oven and will be part of an outdoor kitchen featuring sinks, counters, wood storage and a rocket stove.
In this workshop students will learn how to build (and use) a barrel oven from the ground up!

Here is an initial design for the outdoor kitchen-

Click here to learn more about the barrel oven!

More photos from Jean’s Farm!

Dates: September 14, 2013 – September 15, 2013

Cost: Cost: 150

Location: Jean’s Urban Forest Farm, Portland, OR

Additional Details:

In this workshop students will learn how to build (and use) a barrel oven from the ground up! Contact eva@firespeaking.com if you are interested in this workshop!

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Build A Barrel Oven Workshop

August 15, 2012 / By Eva

Build A Barrel Oven Workshop

Learn to Build a Barrel Oven at beautiful Big Bear Camp!
In this workshop students will learn how to build (and use) a barrel oven from the ground up!

See this website for more information and registration- BIG BEAR CAMP

Dates: August 17, 2013 – August 18, 2013

Cost: Cost: 125

Location: Big Bear Camp – Walton, OR

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Build a Cob Home

August 8, 2012 / By Eva

Build a Cob Home

We will be building a small, beautiful home out of cob. Come learn how to assess and prepare site soils, make cob, and build with cob. You will learn about foundations, windows, doors, benches, shelves and roofs and how they interface with this amazing, durable, sculptural building medium! There will be fun people and great music. Host is also looking for people who are interested in coming early and assisting with material prep and the foundation.

Dates: August 8, 2013 – August 14, 2013

Cost:

Location: Sequim, WA

Additional Details:

Cost for this workshop is a sliding scale of $0-$300. All meals are provided by an amazingly talented chef! This is a beautiful homestead just outside of the city and will be a very fun environment. Lodging will be a mix of camping and indoor. You will learn a lot about how to make and build with cob and be able to go home and build your own structure! Contact Ankur Shah at ankurbhai@mangolandia.org for more information.

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Shelter Series at Aprovecho

July 28, 2012 / By Eva

Shelter Series at Aprovecho

Sustainable Shelter Workshop Series

Natural Building and Green Design from the ground up!

July 28th – September 14th, 2013

The Sustainable Shelter Workshop Series is a 7 week course designed to empower participants with the ability to design/build/renovate their own home using simple techniques and natural, vernacular materials. During this course we will start from the ground and move up teaching not only the art/science of natural building and green design, but the corresponding appropriate technologies essential for successfully integrating your shelter into a permaculture landscape.

The course is taught by a team of Pacific Northwest natural builders with over fifty years of experience in the field whose teaching emphasis is direct, hands-on involvement for the students complimented by classroom/theory time when appropriate. During the course we will be constructing a 200 sqft. model home giving participants the opportunity to see the principles and techniques they are learning put into practice.

Check out this link to learn more about the Sustainable Shelter Workshop Series!!

Dates: July 28, 2013 – September 14, 2013

Cost: Cost: 2975

Location: Aprovecho – Cottage Grove, OR

Additional Details:

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Complete Cob at Cob Cottage Company

July 12, 2012 / By Max

Complete Cob at Cob Cottage Company

Complete Cob and Remodeling

Start Date: Jul 12 2013

End Date: Jul 21 2013

Location: Bandon/Coquille, OR

Cost: $880

Accommodations:

Includes all meals, camping is available free of charge

Registration, Discounts and Related Information

Instructors: Eva Edleson & April Magill

Description:
Join us at our neighborhood location in beautiful Bandon by the Sea for the most comprehensive cob course available in North America. This month we will teach a 9 day intensive in beautiful Bandon-By-The Sea Oregon, and including some time at our Cob complex in Coquille. We will not only cover Complete Cob, but we will also experience remodeling an existing stick frame construction with light straw clay insulation and demo a pallet wall with clay straw infill! In this expanded version of our most popular program ever, we’ll take the ground out from under your feet and turn it into a versatile medium to sculpt a whole house. You will learn construction of Cob walls, arches for doors and windows, and artistic details and some finish work too. We will discuss siting/design, rubble trench foundations, roofing options, passive solar, plasters, earthen floors and more. And you’ll leave confident enough to build a cob building of your own or to naturally renovate an existing conventional building! Space is limited to allow personalized hands on instruction. Please arrive on July 12th between 3pm and 5pm.

Dates: July 12, 2013 – July 21, 2013

Cost: Cost: 880

Location: Bandon, OR

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Homesteading for Women: Permaculture Tools for Self-Reliant Living

June 22, 2012 / By Eva

Homesteading for Women: Permaculture Tools for Self-Reliant Living

Hands-on: Natural Building & Edible Landscape Design

June 22-23, 2013

With Jude Hobbs and Eva Edleson

Wilson Creek Gardens, Cottage Grove Oregon

The intention of this workshop is to create a comfortable and supportive environment to explore the basics of homesteading through the lens of whole systems design. For our hands-on experience we will concentrate on practical applications of Natural Building, Solar Hot Water Systems and Edible Landscape Design. This is a time to relax with like-minded people and bring home the tools to start the process of creating efficient, bountiful and beautiful environments. LEARN TO BUILD YOUR OWN SHELTER OR OUTBUILDING USING SLIP CHIP AND LIGHT STRAW CLAY!!

More about this course and others with Cascadia Permaculture

Homesteading Workshop 2013 Registration Form

Dates: June 22, 2013 – June 23, 2013

Cost: Cost: 250

Location: Cottage Grove, Oregon

Additional Details:

$250 (Includes workshop materials, camping & meals) $25.00 discount if registered by 5/22 To register: CONTACT JUDE– at cascadiapc@gmail.com Limited local work trades available

Urban Permaculture Design Course

June 22, 2012 / By Eva

Urban Permaculture Design Course

Eva will be teaching the Natural Building Component of this Permaculture Design Course.

See Planet Repair’s website for more information and registration

This course hosts many of our bioregion’s top instructors of ecological design who will cover a wide variety of topics, including soil remediation, water harvesting, food systems and forest gardening, natural building techniques, urban ecology and foraging, plant propagation and grafting techniques, small scale energy systems, and community mapping and collaborative design methods. However, our course is not limited to the classroom and theoretical learning – we will be spending lots time outside applying our knowledge, learning from hands-on techniques, and actively implementing systems that will have an immediate direct impact on the neighborhood and on the planet!

Dates: June 22, 2013 – October 12, 2013

Cost: Cost: 650

Location: Portland, OR

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The Village Building Convergence

May 18, 2012 / By Eva

The Village Building Convergence

Village Building Convergence

City Repair’s Village Building Convergence is an annual ten-day placemaking festival that combines crowdsourced activism, creative community development, hands-on education and celebration.

WE WILL BE TEACHING A COURSE ON HOW TO MAKE AND USE A WOOD-FIRED EARTH OVEN AT JEAN’S FARM!! SEE SCHEDULE BELOW AND JOIN US AT JEAN’S FARM!!! (4005 SE Johnson Creek Blvd — Do not park onsite, rather park on the street nearby and walk down to this AMAZING FARM!!!!) Click on the Village Building Convergence link above to learn more!!!

JEAN’S FARM (LEARNING GARDENS INSTITUTE)

SCHEDULE All ages welcome!

Fri 24: Open to the public 1/2 day, 1-4. Cob oven building with Eva Edleson! Story of the farm by Steve Johnson

at 1:00.

Sat 25: Open to the public all day, 10-4. Cob work, roof building, gardening. Mother Earth School’s K-3 openhouse & farm tour 11-12, kid-friendly bee and chicken exploration at 1:00.

Sun 26: Open to the public all day, 10-4. Cob building with Eva Edleson, roof building, gardening.

Mon-Thurs: Scheduled school groups only. Cob drying.

Please visit us on these other days.

Fri 31: Open to the public 1/2 day, 1-4 cob finishing &plastering with Eva Edleson

Sat 1: Open to the public all day, 10-4 roof building,

gardening.

Sun 2: VBC project tour day. Visit the VBC site for tour details.

A family-friendly site, Jeans Farm is a collaboration between the Learning Gardens Institute, Mother Earth School, Sunnyside Environmental School, Rising Stone CSA and Steve Johnson & Elora Cosper, whose family has 130 years of history on this land. Learning Gardens Institute and the rest of the Jeans Farmland partners invite you to support theexpansion of the farm’s outdoor kitchenarea to create richer learning opportunities for youth & children and increase kitchen capacity for hosting public events. Natural builder extraordinaire Eva Edleson will help us build a new and improved cob oven thatr euses all the materials of the original oven being taking down after seven great yearsof service. We’ll also work on building roof structures for this oven and future kitchen features and install a new sink station andwater system. There will be garden and farm projects happening throughout. Come during our public hours and help us build an educational kitchen and tend the learning gardens.

Dates: May 24, 2013 – June 2, 2013

Cost:

Location: Portland, OR

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Events

Sustainable Shelter Workshop Series

Natural Building and Green Design from the ground up!

Complete Cob and Remodeling

City Repair’s Village Building Convergence is an annual ten-day placemaking festival that combines crowdsourced activism, creative community development, hands-on education and celebration.