SERVICES OFFERED

 

Online Calendar of events. 

 

Workshops :

Rocket Stove

Pyromania

Earth Plaster on natural building walls, drywall and cement. 

Earth Sculpting

Earth Model-making

Earth Oven

Fairy Houses

Strawbale, Cob & Wattle & Daub Wall Construction

Building a stone or urbanite perimeter wall

Thatching

Reed Collection

Ancient Skills: cording  (gather in fall, for winter use)

Holiday Gift-making:  cording, herb weavings, dream catcher, candles and earthen candle sticks

Low energy Food Cooking & Preservation: solar cooker, solar & electric food dryer, insulated cooking box, fermentation, sauer kraut, yoghurt, kefir, sour dough.

Permaculture Gardening: Sheet Mulching & Mandala Garden, Herb Spiral, Worm Composting, Covered Composting.  How to plant. 

Herbs & Plants on the land: dogbane, cording. seasonal foods to forage, a tour of edible & medicinal plants

Sustainable Design:  Model Ecovillage Project.

Green Mapping

 

Teaching for

Co-teaching with Cob Cottage

Lance Bowen at Tall Trees Community Farm

Homeschooling Teen Group (Teen Build)

 

 

Tours offered

Natural Buildings & Sustainable Living Skills

Upland Hills Ecological Awareness Center

 

Rental

Strawbale Studio: for activity, class or overnight stay

Classes:

Cabin: get-away retreat

 

Volunteers needed for

Gardens

Master Gardener Association. 

Data Entry

Workshop preparation. 

 

Credits available for natural building & sustainable living skills internships

Potential with Oakland University, Eastern Michigan University, Oakland Community College, Baker College School of Interior Design, Michigan State University, Lansing Community College.  Professor Means, Professor

Snyder, garage designer, .

 

Presentations, Exhibits, Demonstrations:

Great Lakes Bioneers, Natural Building Colloquium

 

Presentations on:

Natural Building Powerpoint

Strawbale Powerpoint from Laura Bartel (with her permission)

Videos: Natural Building, Bioneers.

 

Bringing in / Collaborate with Teachers:

Wilderness Skills: fire starting

Tree Identification:  Rick Makovinchi

Herbs & Edible Plants: Jim McDonald

 

Future Projects:

Solar Dryer for Fay. 

Winter workshops: Rennaisance evening.  Wine cheese, music, cording.

New Year's Eve party.

Plan a workshop.  Get 5 others, workshop is free to you. 

Treehouse Construction

Wooden musical instruements in the woods.  Enchanted paths.

Stone Circles on the Land

Stone Kiva

Labyrinth

Magazine Roof. Kevin's mom, Free cycle, Library

Root Cellar

 

Collect on the land

bittersweet vines for wreaths, acorns, wild grape,

Move Nettles up to garden. 

Buy asparagus. 

 

Maintance

SB shed, empty

Bat Box up

Red Shed organize

Gardening:

Perrenial Gardens (mulch & plan to make them Permculture Gardens).

Garlic Bed, Fay, research, prepare

Fall.  Weed whip and lawn mower, empty. Greenhouse plastic. 

Heat in main house.  Add woodstove?

 

Projects to finish:

Strawbale Studio heating system

Spiral Chamber. 

 

 

 

Done

Pallets collected

Stones moved from garden beds

Stones and mulch  in Spiral Chamber area

Worm compost changed out. 

 

 

 

Greenhouse planted