From officemanager at svionline.org Mon Sep 21 19:32:34 2009 From: officemanager at svionline.org (office manager) Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:32:34 -0500 Subject: [Sviannouncements] Free Cob and Timberframe WorkWeekend at Ulinawi Message-ID: <9F57AB37-222D-4EDA-AA8A-64798371CE50@svionline.org> Free Cob and Timberframe WorkWeekend at Ulinawi friday sept 25 through sunday sept 27 come work and learn with us! this weekend we'll be cobbing our "Covulator" (the cob-ovulator, a strawbale chicken house and low-cost housing prototype), as well as doing a beam-raising for Exat, an earthbag-timberframe residence. we'll start friday afternoon with a cobbing 101 class, to be repeated sunday as needed. saturday we'll be moving wood, raising the roundpole beams, attatching them to their posts, and raising and attatching the joists on top of that. saturday night, we'll burn the largest fire we can find, and get some craziness out, then take it easy sunday, playing in mud, working on the covulator. the workshop is free, though donations of currency, food, beer etc are encouraged. please bring a tent and bedding if you're planning on camping. any dietary needs can be accommodated. if you're bringing pets, please be prepared to tie them up (dogs and goats usually dont mix). for more information feel free to call us at 678-772-4616 (marissa) or 510-853-0888 (bradley) see you then! Chris Gilligan Board of Directors - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Sequatchie Valley Institute 1233 Cartwright Loop Whitwell, TN 37397 (423) 949-5922 tel svionline.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: