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How to find a natural building course
Select a building method from above to see what courses and workshops are available. The main building methods are covered and other building related topics, like clay and lime plastering, can be found in 'wall' and other courses like 'sewage solutions' are found in the topic 'water'. All these opportunities have been picked to help you develop the practical skills to create your own natural home. We use colours to represent the different regions of the world where the courses are available.
Africa
Europe
Americas
Australasia
Asia

Help us to map your natural home
To help others who are thinking of going green we have launched our mapping system so that natural homes around the world are more accessible. If you know about a home that you think should be on our map then contact us. Take a look at the Natural Homes Map.


New courses at Quiet Earth, Wales, UK

New courses in strawbale building on the 21st. August and lime and clay plastering on the 27th August. You can work on this beautiful two-storey load bearing house. Various work needs doing including clay and lime plastering, lime washing, installing compost/ aquatron system, rainwater harvesting, solar and wind power installation etc. If you are interested contact Rachel Shiamh on quietearth@ukonline.co.uk
 
Straw bale house, Wales
Quiet Earth
built by Rachel
Whitehead
 
Cob Building Course, Devon, UK
Kevin McCabe builds award winning homes in cob. Join his cob building course on the 28th July. The cost is £88 per day and includes lunch at Keppel Gate
Straw bale houses on the map

Spread the word about natural homes
Help us by telling your friends about naturalhomes.org and sending us details of learning opportunities for the 2007 & 2008 calendar. The learning calendar focuses on natural building methods and related areas such as natural paints, energy, water and waste management. Below is a form that you can use to send us details of any opportunity that you feel will be of value to people who want to learn about natural home building. We will only make entries to the calendar if you include your email so that we can write to you to confirm details. If you are building your own home and would like volunteer builders then please feel free to use naturalhomes.org to market your project. If you would like us to give you a house page on naturalhomes.org please tick the
house page box.

 
name
email
web address
 
 I'd like a house page on natural homes
workshop address
workshop fee
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Straw bale house, Denmark
Spiral Strawbale
Denmark by Poula-Line Schmidt
Cob house, USA
The Rainbow House
USA by Dorethy
Earthbag house, Poland
Hobbit House
Poland by Paulina and Jarema
Rammed earth house, New Maxico
Our House
USA
by Kristin and Denis
Straw bale house, Argentina
El Trébol del Monte
Argentina by Timothy Cullen
Passive solar house, USA
DIY Solar Home
USA by Doug Kalmer
Straw bale house, Holand
Butterfly House
Holland by Jan Sonneveld
Cob house, Canada