[GSBN] courses and work camps in spain with maren termens rikki nizkin and tom rijven

Tue Aug 26 17:36:03 UTC 2008

  Bioconstruction
  and Permaculture 
  Courses
  and Work Camps

The Mas Franch Cooperative, a
social and ecological initiative, is hosting a series of courses and workcamps
on bioconstruction and permaculture.  In
August 2008 we constructed a the round timber structure of a 140m2 meeting hall and cellar, which we will infill
with strawbale and cob, heat with a masonry stove and cover with a green
roof.  All the courses begin at 19:00PM on the first day and include dinner, and
end at 19:00PM on the last day.  The
course cost covers full vegetarian meals, housing in our multifamily 13th
century home, didactic resources, and personal insurance, in addition to 8
hours a day of in-class and hands-on learning. 
All our course costs are negotiable for people who have few
resources.  For our workcamp participants
we offer personal insurance, housing, and vegetarian meals, however we ask for
contributions to cover food costs, on a pay-what-you-can system.  For more information about the courses below,
or to register, please contact Erika at masfranch at masfranch.com,
or phone (34) 972-444-345 (landline) / (34) 626-83-17-14 (mobile).  For directions to Mas Franch, please visit www.masfranch.com.  

  Bioconstruction

  Permaculture

  Course:
  Introduction to natural construction and bioclimatic architecture
  Instructor: Iñaki Urquía, Bioclimatic Architect
  Dates: 12 – 14 Sep 2008
  Price: €75 (negotiable)

  Course: Strawbale Construction with Cob Coat 
  Instructors: Maren
  Termens and Rikki Nitzkin, both certified with Amazonails Strawbale Innovations,
  UK
  Dates:
  16 – 21 Sep 2008
  Price:
  €325 (negotiable)

  Work Camp: Strawbale Construction
  with Cob Coat
  Dates: 22 – 28 Sep 2008
  Price:
  donation can to cover food costs

  Course: Application of the Earthen Body Coat & Installation of low
  energy consumption electrical system
  Instructor: Tom Rijven, strawbale
  and earthen wall builder
  Dates: 28 Sep – 3 Oct
  2008
  Price: €325 (negotiable)

  Work
  Camp: Application of Earthen Body Coat
  Dates: 4 - 26 Oct 2008
  Price:
  donation can to cover food costs
  Course: Application of Earthen Plaster
  Final Coat and Clay Plaster Decoration
  Instructor: Tom Rijven, strawbale and earthen wall builder
  Dates: 1 – 15 March 2009
  Price: €450 (negotiable)
  Course: Popular and Traditional Rural
  Catalan Architecture 
  Instructors: Mireia Torres, architect, Esaú
  Rodriguez, geologist and builder, Juan Pedro Franco, architect and
  permaculturalist 
  Dates: 14 - 23 August 2009
  Precio: €355
  (negotiable)                              

  Course:
  Building a Greenhouse with Permaculture Principles
  Instructors: Oscar Gussinyer  and Juan Pedro Franco, certified
  permaculturalists with Permaculture Montsant
  Dates: 3 – 6 January 2009
  Price: €105 (negotiable)
  Course: Natural Agriculture
  Instructor: Jamie Nicol, natural farmer (Fukuoka)
  Dates: 9 – 13 April 2009
  Price: €295 (negotiable)

  Course: Natural Greywater Treatment
  Instructor: Carles Perez, aquatic engineer
  Dates:
  5 – 10 May 2009
  Price:
  €295 (negotiable)

  Work
  Camp: Building a natural greywater treatment system
  Fechas: 11 – 17 May 2009
  Price: donation can to
  cover food costs
  Course: Cultivation and Multiple Uses
  of Winter Wheat 
  Instructor: Jamie Nicol, agricultor natural (Fukuoka)
  Fechas: 29 junio – 1 julio 2009
  Precio: €75 (negotiable)

  Course: Permaculture Design Certification
  Instructors: Oscar
  Gussinyer  and Juan Pedro Franco,
  certified permaculturalists with Permaculture Montsant 
  Dates: 1 – 31 July 2009

  Price: to be confirmed

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> From: seed4peace at yahoo.com
> Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:20:52 -0700
> Subject: [practical-sbc] european strawbale online network launch
> 
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> Dear strawbale friends & friends of strawbale friends!
> 
> 
> Some two weeks ago i was hit by a sudden wave of inspiration and i-can-do-it kind of feelings and i have decided that it was high time we had a united european strawbale networking webpage:)  I  also decided that it shouldn't be hard to make it happen and that it should be a completely open self-organised web that will be a true expression of our strawbaling community, that needs no management from outside. So here it comes! I came to Denmark to visit my friend Charlotte and shared my excitement with her and she offered to help. So now we have a wonderful domain www.strawbale-net.eu and me and Karen (colleague of Charlotte) are working on the design of the web-site.
> 
> The main purpose of the web is to connect ourselves - strawbaling people across the continent - and to give a good tool to the strawbale interested public. This should be an easy to use, clear web where people can find contact for all the strawbale builders, all the products connected with sb building, find all the events connected to sb building and find their way to the other webs where they can learn more about straw.
> As we see and feel it right now the site should have a searchable directory of all the strawbale people in Europe, a calendar of different strawbale events, email list, blog where people can post anything concerning the straw and who knows - perhaps there will be need and will amongst us to add more functions and features in the future!  
> 
> As I already mentioned we already have the domain and we paid for the coming years' registration, we also have a designer and person who can be part of setting up the web - this is my danish friend Karen. 
> - We are still looking for somebody who has knowledge of either joomla or
> drupal cms and who would be willing help with setting the web up. You would not be alone doing this, but we also don't want to be alone doing it :)!!!
> - The next thing we need and that we don't have is some nice pictures of straw, strawbales, strawbale houses and buildsites, and happy strawbaling people.  
> - Also we need somebody who feels excited about the whole idea to write a welcome page for the web. I would of course give all the background information needed and support u in whichever way in doing this.  
> 
> The kind of pictures we need now to create the identity of the web:
> - nice details of straw as a natural material
> - details of sb houses which don't show a specific house but represent an ideal of a sb house
> - some pics from sb builds with tools in them
> - some pics from sb builds with people in them (preferably unknown faces:)
> - some landscape pics with grain/straw/strawbale fields
> If u r willing to share some of the pictures from your archive u are most welcome to send them to both me and Karen (seed4peace at yahoo.com, karen at antiflex.net). We need pictures that are copyright-free or that u personally made and are willing to share free of charge - of course we would quote the source of the pics.
> 
> As soon as the web will be on I'll send the word out, I hope this will be soon and I'm looking forward to be connecting with all of u folks! Please feel free to connect if u have anything to contribute with:)
> 
> love&straw all around
> yours
> nora kasanicka
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