"Let's put housing back in the hands of the people that occupy it."
• Cob Bottle Wall + SculptureJune 3
• Earthen Plasters and PaintsJune 9 - 10
• Earthbag Building BasicsJune 23 -24
• Plastering and Earthen PaintsJune 30 - July 1
• Earthen Floors - applying and finishingJuly 7 - 8
• Earthbag Earthship IntensiveJuly 14 - 31
• Masonry Heater IntensiveAugust 18 - 19, & 25 -26
• Rocket Stove Hot TubSeptember 8 - 9
• Earthen Paints - distance learningAnytime
To Register, or get more information, Email us at: workshops@earthenhand.com
Get a 10% discount for each additional friend you bring, AND get 10% off on your second course.
Our courses are designed to be accessible to all skill levels. Students will learn cumulatively if they attend several workshops.
Online courses are HERE! starting with Earthen Paints.
Apprenticeship information
Take a look at the Earthen Hand You Tube Channel and our Facebookpage
This page is the best place to get our up to date workshop schedule. Also, please join our mailing list via the home page.
Learn the ins and outs of designing structures that use earthen materials. This course is absolutely packed with information, including site selection, soil sampling, history, and various applications of earthen materials to achieve shelter. This theoretical course is best paired with a future hands on course.
$180
Lunch included.
$80.
Lunch included.
Learn to mix and apply adobe/cob plasters. Also learn recipes and application of earthen paints, known as aliz, which makes a healthy eco coating for any interior. Discover the many possibilities of earthen finishes! Hands-on instruction, lectures and slides by Scott Howard. Lunch included.
$180
Lunch Included.
$180.
Lunch included.
$180.
Lunch included. Camping onsite.
$180.
Lunch included. Camping onsite.
Eighteen days of intensive learning at a remote site in Southern Colorado. We will build a Earthbag Earthship home for Tetsuko, a friend and buddhist practitioner who is quadriplegic. Experience an amazing natural setting! A stream with resident beavers runs by the site. Learn all the details of construction with lectures, slides, and hands on classes. You will come away from this experience ready to build your own home with little further guidance required.
$1500
Organized and lead by Scott Howard, with special guest teachers Sun Ray Kelley and Jason Temple. This workshop will be extremely rich in cutting edge information. Students will learn the science of fire and wood burning. Assemble a rocket stove masonry heater that will heat radiant floors, water, air, provide options for cooking, and heat an adjacent greenhouse. Ideally, students can attend both weekends to get the full experience.
$200 per weekend, $350 for both
In this one-of-a-kind class, learn to assemble a simple rocket stove which will transfer heat to a tub of water via metal tube coiled within the firebox. A simple, efficient, portable, and inexpensive design that you can assemble at home with this knowledge.
$180
$50
Includes email support. Registration is anytime and ongoing. Email us at workshops@earthenhand.com to begin.
About Earthen Hand Workshops
A growing number of people are interested in natural building, earthen building, and permaculture techniques. Our workshops seek to empower people with information and hands-on instruction for a self-reliant, ecological lifestyle.
We are dedicated to educating people about ecological building, and simple alternative technologies. Workshops offered focus on skills and intuition that allow a builder to create within a natural harmony. Each day of a workshop includes hands-on training, discussion, and lecture. We hope that anyone who attends our workshops will continue to learn and teach technologies of global self-empowerment.
Potential workshop hosts can contact us by email at: workshops@earthenhand.com. Our ideal workshop is cooperatively organized, delivering quality education while completing a useful structure at an affordable price for everyone.
Our local workshops provide:
- Hands-on learning in earthen building techniques
- Useful and beautiful structures that cooperate with their surrounding landscape
- Opportunities to learn skills for free—Public workshops offered annually through Portland's Village Building Convergence event
Our international workshops:
- Create a positive cross-cultural exchange
- Train participants in earthen building techniques
- Provide international communities with needed structures that cooperate with their surroundings
- Draw funds and human energy to places where the resources are more needed
Testimonials
"Scott was an excellent teacher, and super patient with all of us newbies. Totally worth the flight from Charlotte, and I recommend this style
of learning very highly!"
— Luke
"I loved creating a structure by hand with our class. It was fun to get dirty and work hard with our amazing crew and teachers.
We learned a specific method of natural building, but were also introduced to many ways of sculpting earthen materials and living in harmony with nature."
— Skylark
"Thanks for the great cob workshop! It was great to meet other people who are into cob and take the first step towards making my own cob house a reality."
— Katie