WORKSHOPS

2019 NATURAL COB BUILDING WORKSHOP

25 APRIL – 10 MAY

HOSTED AT PAI SEEDLINGS FOUNDATION

Pai Seedlings Foundation will be hosting a two weeks Natural Building Workshop with Frank Ravis who has over 10 years of experience in the area. He has built Little Mountain Pai Community Homeschool in Pai already and he is willing to teach you all about natural building. This workshop will help building Seedlings Education Center to welcome people, schools for educative sessions about Permaculture and Self-sustainibility.

We are so looking forward to it!! 😀

Program includes:

-Learn about natural earth construction known as Cob

-How to determine which soils are good for building and which arent

-this class will start with creating the walls in a project and finish using both clay and line plasters

-learn how to make and apply lime plaster

-learn how to make and apply clay plaster

-learn why Cob is such a great building medium. Both for Energy savings and for its environmental benefits

-learn how to install windows and doors in construction

-learn about installing electricity

– and more

It’s an on going project so each step will come when its needed 🙂

PRICE PER PERSON 7000 BAHT lunch and drinks incuded

Possibility to come only one or few days, please send us PM for more details on prices.

Please make deposit on this website:

https://www.wetravel.com/trips/natural-cob-building-workshop-pai-seedlings-foundation-pai-province-de-mae-hong-son-thailande-86419561

2019 PERMACULTURE & SELF-SUSTAINABILITY WORKSHOPS

~~JANUARY 16-17-18~~
~~FEBRUARY 6-7-8~~

*stay tuned for upcoming workshops on our Facebook page!

This 3-day course is a great chance to learn the basic techniques we use on the farm and will give you a hands-on taste for the different practices we do here. This will include an introduction to gardening, making garden beds and composting, introduction to earthen building with cob, cooking from the garden, making basic natural products like soaps and deodorant and an introduction to beekeeping. You’ll see what you like and can take away to use in your own home. Hosted at Pai Seedlings Farm.

The workshop will cover:

The overview of Permaculture principles
How we design our garden
How to make vegetables beds and compost
How to plant trees
Beekeeping (importance of bees in our ecosystem, life in the hive, finding the queen, checking honey and pollen, the birth of a bee)
How to make your own natural soap or shampoo bars
Introduction to natural building

No gardening or building experience is necessary.