"Natural Building helps us connect again to our local natural environment, to our own intuitive and innate creativity, and to each other. It helps us to shift from an industrial, and often toxic building process to one that is affordable, empowering, community-building and life-affirming."

Tax-deductable Donations

The Strawbale Studio Natural Building Educational Program is being sponsored by SEEDS, a non-profit which supports environmental and ecological design solutions. www.ecoseeds.org

Your funds will be used to provide natural building and related sustainability education through workshops, publicity and outreach, exhibits and presentations on and off site. If you wish to support a specific part of the program (partially or in full), see the choices below.

Make your tax-deductable donation checks payable to "SEEDS", with "For the purposes of the Strawbale Studio Natural Building Program" written on the Memo Line of the check.

Send to: Deanne Bednar, P.O. Box 733, Oxford, MI 48371

Thanks so much for your contribution which makes this unique and significant work possible.

• Scholarships for participants to recieve training through workshops and internships.($40 supports for one day, $250 for one week)
• Heating for the Strawbale Studio ~ making it comfortable and useful for year-round tours & programing: woodstove & fan($1800), radiant floor electronics ($525), piping and hot water tank ($375).
• Publicity: printing of 500 copies of the bookmark with basic information about programing and the website ($100). 500 copies of the trifold ($450)
• Kids Cottage Start-to-Finish Project to teach all ages the essentials of natural building, foundation through roof. Applicable to refugee and emergency situations. ($100 supports one family to attend for one day)
• Emergency and refugee housing. Through the use of the Builders Without Borders training manual, individuals can learn the basics of shelter. ($100 provides a student manual and a 3 day course)