permaculture

[blissv@nmhu.campus.mci.net]

Hi..received this Straw Bel workshop post and it does not indicate where it
is being held or costs..perhaps I missed former info..
VInca


>CULTURE'S EDGE
>Outline for StrawBale course August 14-16, 1998
>Friday
>10-11- Final Registration & orientation
>11-1- Opening circle and introductions.  Specific needs accessed/ overview
>of what this workshop's about. A look at the model and other strawbale
>structures on site.
>1-2 - Lunch
>2-2:30- break
>2:30-3:30 - Classroom session ( foundations, wall systems, drainage, roofs
>& overhangs, load    specs, tools, handling bales,  vapour barriers,
>windows & doors, building codes, wall   finishes etc.)
>3:30- 5 - Action session - Applying vapour barriers to foundation, using
>the bale press
>5:00-5:30 - clean up
>5:30-6 Break
>6-7 - Dinner * (earlier than usual)
>8 - Video (power permitting)
>
>Saturday
>8:30-9:30 Breakfast
>9:30-10 - Q & A session
>10- 1- Action session -  Community members join in to lay up the walls on
>the community center.
>1-2  Lunch
>2-2:30 break
>2:30-5 - Action session - Building top plates /securing the wall
>5:30-6  clean up
>6-6:30 break at 30 min. dinner bell
>6:30 -7:30- Dinner
>8- Media Presentation (power permitting) & or Fire circle
>
>Sunday
>8:30-9:30 - Breakfast
>9:30-1- Action session - Completing the wall & preparing for wall finish
>1-2 Lunch
>2-2:30 Break
>2:30-4:00- Demonstation: Making & applying plaster finishing
>4:00-4:30- Cleanup
>4:30-5 -Closing circle & evaluation
>
>Prep -
> Prepare top plates, get  tools together , hang tarp, video set-up,
>handouts, get materials not on site (check list below), alert members
>
>Materials list - Baling wire, Baie press, bailng needles,  bales, threaded
>rod, bamboo or stickers, bracing, 3 tarps, rope, roll of 6mil  black
>plastic, string, blackboard, easel, chalk, markers, large drawing pad,
>drills, saws, spikes, hammers & various nails, measurers, gloves, mini
>bales, glass jars, model, handouts
>masking tape,permanent markers, opague projector ? Video, table, clay pile,
>2 screens, 4 shovels, 4 mortar hoes, 1 barrel clayslip, 6 buckets, chopped
>straw, 2 wheelbarrows.
>
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>valerie@earthaven.org (Valerie)
>http://www.earthaven.org
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