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Rammit Yourself Workshop
 
Workshops begin again Monday, Sept. 8, when we lay out the footing excavation and plumbing excavation for the third (central) portion of our home. Excavation will happen on Tuesday, followed by rebar installation Wednesday and Thursday. Our goal will be to have the footing rebar inspected Friday morning, followed by an afternoon concrete foundation pour.
The following week, we will form and pour stemwalls, and the fourth week of September, we will begin forming, mixing and tamping the rammed earth walls.
We anticipate that it will take us three weeks to finish these walls, including putting electric boxes and conduit in each setting of forms. By the end of October, we will be stripping the last forms.
After we finish this project, future workshops will focus on patio walls.
Please feel free to call Julie at 520.896.3393 with any workshop questions.






Learn to build with earth during construction of master earth builder Quentin Branch's home.

Instruction includes:

  • Designing and siting a home for passive-solar function
  • Reviewing earth building engineering principles
  • Choosing and testing materials
  • Preparing earth mixes
  • Forming, tamping and stripping walls

Participants may bring half-full 5-gallon buckets of any soil they might want to use for building. This will be tamped into regulation-formed cylinders for later testing at soils labs in participants' home towns.

Classes continue Mondays through Thursdays, through March 27.

Fee schedule: $200/day, $500 for three days, and $600 for four day. This includes breakfast and lunch each day. Groups of 2 or more get 10% reductions.

For more information, please call Julie at (520) 896-3393.

I would just like to thank everybody for the great school and social event this past weekend. Everything was great. (I'm already missing Julie's breakfast burritos.) The unselfish sharing of your vast knowledge and the desire to teach others is incredible. I almost felt like family. Thanks again.
-Tim Engholm (Three Points, Arizona)