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Archive of past Courses & Events

2022

Exterior Lime Plaster - Pallet Shed Retrofit
​Port Townsend, WA

Lion's Gate - Cob Temple Build
​Port Townsend, WA
​September 3-5

Timberframe Roof - Mastodon Skeleton 
Chimacum, WA
July 25-29

How to make Clay Paints! - for interior
Chimacum​
Monday, July 18

​Exterior Lime Plaster
Discovery Bay 
​July 23-24

Storytelling under the Sky Lodge
with special guest Harvest Moon
Chimacum
​July 15

Earthen Retrofit Series at Circle Round Compound
with Friends of the Trees
April 15th -- Straw-clay Insulation
May 8th -- Base Lime Plaster
June 4th -- Finish Lime Plaster

Mai Xobo - Earth House
Paococha, Peru
January

2021

Timber Frame at Palatine - Elderberry Cabin
Chimacum, WA
August-October
​(Apologies for lack of photos, combination camera failure and stolen hard drives)

Lion's Gate 
Foundation blessing and introduction to cob
Port Townsend, WA
​August 

2019

Timber Frame
lead by Confluence Fabrications
Port Townsend, WA
August

​Palatine Cob Basilisk
Chimacum, WA (Eaglemount Rd)
August 4 & 5

Cob at Conscrescence
south of Port Townsend, WA
May 6 - cob sculpting
May 13 - base plaster
May 19 - final plaster

2018

Earthen Floor in small-barn retrofit
Port Townsend, WA
August
(Apologies for lack of photos, combination camera failure and stolen hard drives)

2017

Interior Clay Plaster for a family home
Port Townsend, WA
​Autumn
(Apologies for lack of photos, combination camera failure and stolen hard drives)

Cob Bench wedding present <3
Port Hadlock, WA
July 23
​(Apologies for lack of photos, combination camera failure and stolen hard drives)

Earthen Building Series 
through Cedar Root Folk School 
Port Townsend, WA
Summer
​(Apologies for lack of photos, combination camera failure and stolen hard drives)

2016

Summer Working Song
Port Townsend, WA
July 24-25

Spring Working Song
Chimacum, WA
May 14-15

Natural Building at Whitman College
Walla Walla, WA
​April 26

Earthen Floor at B Collective
​​Marrowstone Island, WA
April 17, 20

Finish Lime Plaster at B Collective
​Marrowstone Island, WA
April 9

Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (Film Screening)
Chimacum Grange
February 26

1st Seasonal Working Song Gathering
Port Townsend, WA
February 18-20

2015

Warm Muddy Walls
Quilcene, WA
October 17-18 & 24-25

Song-House Hugelkultur :: Seaweed, Soil, & Seedlings
Port Townsend, WA
October 10

Earthen House Building, Cob-N-Straw Building Series
Marrowstone Island, WA
August - September weekends

1st Annual Port Townsend Village Building Convergence
Port Townsend, WA
July 25-29

PTVBC at Old School 4th of July
Port Townsend, WA
July 4

Earthen Floor
Discovery Bay, WA
July 1 & 2

Poetry of the Soil and Soul
with Portland Village Building Convergence
Thursday, June 4 7-8:30 PM

Poetry Night
Port Townsend, WA
May 22

PTVBC Cob Oven Pizza Party & Chalk Giveaway
Port Townsend, WA
May 13

PTVBC Neighborhood Visioning
Port Townsend, WA
March 23

PTVBC Launch Party
Port Townsend, WA
February 22

Gene Keys, 4 Weeks
Port Townsend, WA
Jan 19, 26 & Feb 2, 9

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2014

Participatory Sing! with Laurence Cole
Bend, Oregon
September 7th, 2014

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Denver Village Building Design Course
Denver, Colorado
August 21-24, 2014

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Boulder Village Building Design Course
Boulder, Colorado
August 14-17, 2014

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Hugelkultur: Singing and Sowing Seeds
Port Townsend, WA
June 7-8

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Village Building Design Course Portland
(with the Village Building Convergence)
May 22-23, 25-26

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Introduction to Permaculture
Port Townsend, WA
May 17, 2014

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student feedback for ​village building design course