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Natural Builder Paul Tomkins is an independent hard-working individual with earthship/eco/permaculture and living materials building experience, eager to continue working and learning applying what I have learned to different climates and cultures. All round construction background and knowledge, very eager to travel and take part. Please contact for CV and help get me out there doing what I do best. Contact me via email at pablowmedown [at] yahoo.co.uk.
(Posted 23 January 2007)

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The position is a seven month emersion experience in natural building with a primary emphasis on cob, straw bale, pole framing, plasters, roofs and floors. The position will include 2-3 days per week of building projects.

White Oak Farm offers this position to self-motivated, enthusiastic people who want to further their sustainable living skills. The position is an exchange of labor for room, board, and experience. It is not an academic course or a traditional master-apprentice relationship. Instead you will be working collectively and individually in a community of 6-10 people on
projects that help the Farm to function in a way that is ecologically and economically viable. Required experience for the position includes one or more of the following: organic farming/gardening, natural building, and homesteading.

The work study schedule is three days per week, 6-10 hours per day (depending on the season). During two week-long farm camps the work week will be four days. The primary responsibilities of the work study position are to work on a straw bale/cob cottage. There will also be the opportunity to work on other building projects, and in our gardens and
children's education programs.  Due to the organic nature of farm life the balance of gardening, education events, and natural building will vary with the seasons. Natural building projects around the farm include pole framing of outbuildings and roofs, repair of existing structures and the construction of a straw bale/cob cottage. Work Studiers will also have the
opportunity to aid and participate in two natural building workshops in exchange for help with cooking and workshop logistics.

Since White Oak Farm is a working farm and community, the position also includes community chores beyond the three day week such as: cooking, cleaning, farm animal care, participating in meetings, and community facilities upkeep. All residents at the Farm also pay $20/month into a fund that covers utilities. Position Benefits include housing in a tipi, staple and bulk foods* and fresh produce from the organic garden, use of
farm facilities (including ponds, sauna, computer, etc.), and input in community decision making. Two non-consecutive, week-long vacations can be arranged at the beginning of the season. There is also potential for the position to be extended beyond seven months into long term community member status.

Please contact us at info@whiteoakfarmcsa.org for more information or check out our website: www.whiteoakfarmcsa.org.

(Posted 15 January 2008)

Work Trade Position(s): Solar Energy International

Solar Energy International (SEI) has several positions available for the 2008 work trade program. For the last 15 years SEI has been utilizing the skills and enthusiasm of its diverse work-traders (interns) from around the country to strengthen and grow the organization. In fact, a large majority of the current staff were once work-traders!

If you have an interest in Renewable Energy and Sustainable Building practices, the work trade program is an excellent opportunity to offset tuition costs by working with SEI staff on various projects and tasks.  In addition to reduced tuition costs, work traders also enjoy vast networking opportunities as part of SEI's dynamic education team.  Current positions available this Winter/Spring include:  Natural Building Program Hands-on Prep, PV Assistant/Ranch Hand, Paonia Eco-Campus Permaculturist.  Please visit our website for additional details or call us at 970-527-7657. 

http://www.solarenergy.org /workshops/worktrade.html

Contact Jeff Tobe at 970-527-7657, or Rachel Conor at 970-963-8855

(Posted 15 January 2008)

A call for submissions/participation:

Artist/earth builders of all stripes and colors: To celebrate/encourage/inspire /publish/teach earth art in general, and community art in particular, Hand Print Press invites you to share your best (illustrated) stories for a public portfolio (and a beautiful book, and perhaps a traveling exhibit) of beautiful, varied, inspiring art made of mud, from near and far, by all kinds of experienced or beginners’ hands. If you have a story to tell (and stunning photos to share), please get in touch and help us inspire others to stand up for the earth under their own feet and to take the life of beauty into their own hands.
   The editor/coordinators of the project are Kiko Denzer and Georgie Donais. Kiko published a handful of such stories in a small book titled Dig Your Hands in the Dirt (Hand Print Press, 2005). This project is an expansion and elaboration of that book (sample copies available to potential participants at a deep discount: http://www.handprintpress.com). Georgie is an artist/builder who has been working on a variety of community mud projects at Dufferin Park in Toronto, Canada (http://www.dufferinpark.ca). A new Dig Your Hands in the Dirt website will be up by early 2008(?), and we’re hoping to publish a physical book sometime in 2009.

Kinds of art/mud projects we’re looking for:

• Community art/building projects (all ages)
• School/educational projects with kids (especially so-called “at risk” kids)
• Inspiring stories of challenges met, lessons learned, beauties won (or lost), breakthrough insights, individual and community growth, AND, VERY IMPORTANT, illustrations of THE PRACTICAL ROLE OF ART IN COMMUNITIES.
• Community oven projects (schools included/cross-referenced)
• stupendous mud art projects of any other kind/description (visually stunning, solo or collaborative)

details:

• style: humble, practical, down to earth (i.e., based on actual experience and written for a broad audience of potential builder/artist/do-it-yourselfer s of varied social, political, and spiritual backgrounds — the point is that anyone seeing the work should have a gut reaction along the lines of “I could do that!”) But do include your own personal perspective and understandings of the work and it’s significance.
• length: long enough to tell the story; ideally, significant technical notes/details will be separate so that “how-to” info is easy to find.
• number of photos: again, as many as it takes to tell the story and show off the work. More is better to start, as the project will begin as a website; editing will happen later as we get into book format
• photo quality: should be good enough to reproduce in (paper) book format. Slides and prints are fine. If you need them returned, please include SASE. Electronic files are good, but please send original hi-res images on a CD, preferably with duplicate files at low resolution suitable for web reproduction
• Links/recommendations for inclusion: please let us know of any related books/projects/sites/artists

Fine print:

• participation in the site constitutes permission to publish any submitted materials
• participants will be entitled to order multiple copies of HPP titles at 50% discount (20% off non-HPP books carried by HPP); plus shipping.
• participants will be invited to host a traveling display/exhibit as a way to share the beauty, encourage local growth/awareness/etc.
• the site should be a resource for new beginners interested in finding local help for their own new projects
• general participation, suggestions, encouragement, linkages, assistance are all welcome

(Posted 28 December 2007)

The Ashevillage Institute (AVI), a project of Kleiwerks International, is seeking a permaculture practitioner volunteer...
Asheville, North Carolina

This person will focus on establishing the hard-scape for AVI's outdoor infrastructure (gardens, outdoor classroom, kitchen and courtyard, rainwater catchment, greywater reclamation, sauna/bath house, tenting area and more). Working closely with core staff in the design process, the permaculture practitioner will play a lead role in constructing retaining walls, grading, bed building, material acquisition/salvage runs, and composting. They will also focalize design work on the master plan for AVI's surrounding yard/s,
as well as food and mead fermentation/preservation, and depending on progress, experience some natural building.

Located in a neighborhood a few blocks from downtown Asheville, NC, the Ashevillage Institute (AVI) is in its early stages of becoming an urban education center and living laboratory dedicated to sustainable solutions in action. Please visit our website for a full description: http://www.kleiwerks.org/avi /gardenintern.php
(Posted 4 April 2007)

Housing

Oxford, Michigan (Near Detroit)

INTERN OR RENTER WANTED.
"Learn natural building skills & enjoy natural living in this ecological household on 50 beautiful acres east of Oxford, MI 48370. On rural land 1 hour north of Detroit."

West Wing Bedroom:   $ 500 plus $80 utilities/mo. 

Includes private bedroom apartment with loft sleeping area and a personal bathroom, use of a  terrace off the bedroom area, and 50 acres including gardening space. Shared kitchen / living area & laundry room in the center of the house. 

 

East Wing Bedroom:   $450 plus $50 utilities/mo.

Includes a private bedroom, bathroom which is occasionally shared with natural building guests, use of the courtyard off of the bedroom area, and 50 acres including gardening space. Shared kitchen / living area & laundry room in the center of the house.

Wanted: flexible, good-natured housemates who are able to be neat in the common areas and help with household cleaning projects. Needs to be ok with (or enthusiastic about) occasional workshops on natural building & sustainable living which utilize the house and outbuildings. Ecological living opportunities: healthy food, composting, recycling, foraging and organic gardening. Radiant floor heating in main house and a Rocket Stove Heated Bench in the Workshop. The Strawbale Studio is an enchanting thatched roof structure on the land. The land is a variety of ecosystems, including woods, wetlands, small meadows and trails. Currently 2 cats in the household. Non-smokers please. Visit www.freewebs.com/strawbalestudi o for pics and info on the natural building program and the Strawbale Studio. 

 

Consider living on this site as a renter OR as a renter/intern.

RENTAL. We need rental income, and you can live here as a renter who is friendly to our activities, but not necessarily involved in them.

 

INTERN. As an renter/intern you would pay rent, above and also intern. Internships teach natural building & sustainability living skills through working on current projects and attending workshops in exchange for assistance on projects and the land.  This would be a great way to live & learn. 

Call Deanne 248 628 1887 or email. If you love nature, you will love this place.

photos of contemporary natural buildings courtesy of Catherine Wanek