Are You Interested in Hosting a Workshop?
I’m getting ready to run a few workshops next year. Would you like to host one?
What a workshop would look like?
Depending on the location, and the nature of the workshop, these events could run for anything between one and five days. Somewhere between 6-10 participants will pay me to join these workshops. You will pay nothing. Participants will come to your property where I'll teach a number of natural building skills related to a small project. In the process (depending on the project chosen), a small structure/plastered wall/bottle wall/hen coop etc could be built.
Here are some potential topics that would work well for a workshop:
Things to consider:
1. Accommodation: If this is a workshop longer than one day, where would participants sleep? Can they camp on your property? Is there a bathroom they can use?
2. Food: There are a variety of ways to deal with the food aspect: Are you able to cater for a group of 8-10 participants? If not, is there a local business/food van who could do this job? Or is there an outside kitchen participants could use to make their own meals?
3. Be aware: It’s possible (depending on the size of the project we’re working on) that the project won’t be complete by the end of the course. I will discuss this with you in detail if you choose to host a workshop. Together we will design a realistic project and timeline for completion. Unless I indicate otherwise, you should have learned all the skills by the end of the workshop to complete the structure, and I’ll be available online to offer advice if need be.
4. Mostly I’d advise a limit of 10 participants for a workshop. But I’m open to negotiation on this.
5. I will fill the course from Mud Homers, but if you have people you wish to join, we can arrange that.
Please note: Obviously, I want to work with people who are organised, on the ball, and decisive. The people who respond fastest, and fill in the application form the quickest are likely to be the ones I choose. If I can't contact you easily, or you don't check your emails for weeks on end, it makes it impossible to organise a workshop with you.
What a workshop would look like?
Depending on the location, and the nature of the workshop, these events could run for anything between one and five days. Somewhere between 6-10 participants will pay me to join these workshops. You will pay nothing. Participants will come to your property where I'll teach a number of natural building skills related to a small project. In the process (depending on the project chosen), a small structure/plastered wall/bottle wall/hen coop etc could be built.
Here are some potential topics that would work well for a workshop:
- Clay plaster workshops. I teach the techniques of finding clay, testing plasters, and we create batches of plaster. On longer workshops we can also begin plastering a wall and learn some more advanced techniques using trowels, sponges, and sculpting.
- Wattle and daub. We create a wattled wall or lath. We learn to look for clays, mix plasters and apply the daub. This could work well for an outside bathroom or shed.
- Limeworks: This could be any of the following: I show how to slake lime, how to mix it into render, mortar, limecrete or paint.
- Cob: We could build a hen coop, a dog kennel, a cob oven, cob bench, or similar small cob structure.
- Bottle walls: We can create a beautiful bottle wall using cob. In this we’d learn the art of mixing cob, how to clean the bottles and prep them for a wall, and ways to use them to build.
Things to consider:
1. Accommodation: If this is a workshop longer than one day, where would participants sleep? Can they camp on your property? Is there a bathroom they can use?
2. Food: There are a variety of ways to deal with the food aspect: Are you able to cater for a group of 8-10 participants? If not, is there a local business/food van who could do this job? Or is there an outside kitchen participants could use to make their own meals?
3. Be aware: It’s possible (depending on the size of the project we’re working on) that the project won’t be complete by the end of the course. I will discuss this with you in detail if you choose to host a workshop. Together we will design a realistic project and timeline for completion. Unless I indicate otherwise, you should have learned all the skills by the end of the workshop to complete the structure, and I’ll be available online to offer advice if need be.
4. Mostly I’d advise a limit of 10 participants for a workshop. But I’m open to negotiation on this.
5. I will fill the course from Mud Homers, but if you have people you wish to join, we can arrange that.
Please note: Obviously, I want to work with people who are organised, on the ball, and decisive. The people who respond fastest, and fill in the application form the quickest are likely to be the ones I choose. If I can't contact you easily, or you don't check your emails for weeks on end, it makes it impossible to organise a workshop with you.
