
Natural Building 3-day Intensive
Sat, May 17
|Golden Rocks Permaculture Farm
Learn the art of sculpted cob and making natural plasters for wildfire-hardening and beautifying any home or landscape!


Time & Location
May 17, 2025, 9:00 AM PDT – May 19, 2025, 3:00 PM PDT
Golden Rocks Permaculture Farm, 15843 Dooley Road, Middletown, CA 95461, USA
Guests
About the event
In this 3-day course Brenda and crew will teach the basics of sculpted cob and exhibit many approaches to raising walls, both straight and curvy. We will lecture on the elements of COB, how to harvest these materials, and everyone will get plenty of hands-on practice mixing cob in a variety of strategies. We will spend half of our workshop time learning about many different recipes for plasters and paints, all made with earthen materials (and even some from the kitchen cabinet!)
All students will have the opportunity to practice, so that your HANDS LEARN, and you will be quite capable of making something with cob by the end of the weekend, even all by yourself!
This workshop is inclusive of daily lunches ~ mostly organic and from our gardens. We will also provide snacks in the mornings and afternoons. Students will have access to our outdoor community kitchen to…
Tickets
Family & Friends ticket price
This ticket is good for up to 2 adults and 2 children. Adult groups of 3 or more should purchase this ticket. Each additional adult beyond 2 people will need to add "additional adult ticket" for $200 each.
$595.00
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