SEE FESTIVAL WEBPAGE HERE FOR MORE DETAILS
Join us for a Hempcrete Building Workshop - Wednesday evening to Saturday afternoon...
....followed by "It Takes a Village Festival" - Saturday later afternoon to Monday morning.
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HEMPCRETE BUILDING
Beginning Wednesday evening, we will focus on learning to build with hemp - including sourcing the materials, mixing the recipe, & installing it into a Solviva greenhouse.
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IT TAKES A VILLAGE FESTIVAL
Saturday late afternoon we'll transition to hosting "It Takes a Village Festival," a family-friendly community gathering taking place over the weekend, including live music, DJs, VJs, flow & fire artists, dance performances, healing artists and practitioners, goats!, permaculturists, vendors, acro yoga, natural medicine making, plant and mushroom foraging, hempcrete building 101, song & drum circles, natural plant dying, massage, reiki, acupuncture, sound healing & meditation, & more!
Let's celebrate the gift of community and the magic that unfolds when we come together to co-create our vision for a more beautiful, abundant, and regenerative world. 🎸🌻🌈🍄💫 🌿
**Note** Weekend Only Tickets are available. Get your meal passes early to save $ on delicious vegetarian meals!
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ABOUT THE PRODUCERS:
Permatours is a non profit motivated to increase food and housing security by creating joyful learn-by-doing experiences that teach people how to grow food and build structures regeneratively. Additionally, through hosting events at community centers throughout the U.S., we’re weaving together a network of hubs that provide opportunities for people to contribute and share their gifts in exchange for food & housing.
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MORE ON THE HEMPCRETE BUILDING WORKSHOPS
Do you have a desire to learn more about natural building?
Would you like to be involved in co-creating a remarkable, sustainable structure?
Are you looking to enter the natural building industry?
Join us for multi-faceted education and entertainment centered around building with hempcrete. You’ll apply your newfound learnings, meet people who share a common interest, celebrate the epic structure we’ll create together, and leave with skills to build your own structure or business! (We're also selling **Weekend** Tickets. More detail below)!
We will be casting hempcrete & installing it onto a wall of a Solviva greenhouse, located on a beautiful 26-acre forested property - home to Diggers Compost Cooperative and the Guzman Family Farm, a 50 min drive from Portland, ME, and 2 hours from Boston, MA.
People of all ages 18+ and of all abilities are welcome to attend the workshops held Thursday through Saturday afternoon - including building professionals, natural and green building advocates, and anyone else excited to partake in this special, one of a kind, training and opportunity to gain in-depth knowledge and practical skills.
**Weekend festivities (Saturday night & Sunday) are family-friendly.
Join a movement focused on creating healthier living spaces that can reverse the damaging effects of CO2 emissions!
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💫🌻 SCHEDULE 🌻💫
🏕 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7th 🏕
4 PM - Check in, set up your campsite & get ready for fun!
6 PM - Opening Circle, followed by Dinner
7 PM - Campfire
🛖 THURSDAY, JUNE 8th 🛖
9 AM - 10 AM - Breakfast & Hempcrete Building Slideshow
10 AM - 12 PM - This will be our first official build day where we’ll focus on getting our build site ready and we’ll install our first few batches of hempcrete. We’ll also learn about safety, the history of hemp building, and the background of the movement to use more hemp. Naturally, we’ll begin to get to know each other, too.
12 PM - Lunch
1 PM to 5 PM - continue the above
12 PM - Lunch
1 PM to 5 PM - This will be our first official build day where we’ll focus on getting our build site ready and we’ll install our first few batches of hempcrete. We’ll also learn about safety, the history of hemp building, and the background of the movement to use more hemp. Naturally, we’ll begin to get to know each other, too. 🙂
6 PM - Dinner
7 PM - Campfire
🦋 FRIDAY, JUNE 9th 🦋
9 AM - Breakfast
10 AM to 1 PM - On day 2 we’ll learn the process of building the forms, preparing the recipes, mixing and installing.
1 PM - Lunch
2 PM to 5 PM - By now, you will have learned about all of the different jobs involved in building with hempcrete. We will hone our skills as we work on the wall application system.
6 PM - Dinner
7 PM - Campfire
🐛 SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 10th
On this final day of our training, we will study the many ways and places to install our system, including installing floors and ceilings.
9 AM - Breakfast
10 AM - 12 PM - Plaster and finishing, Learn how to mix and apply the finish plaster to our wall
12 PM - Lunch
1 PM - 3 PM - More plaster & finishing
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❤️🔥 IT TAKES A VILLAGE FESTIVAL BEGINS ❤️🔥 (FAMILY-FRIENDLY)
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🎟 TICKETS 🎟
4-DAY WORKSHOP & FESTIVAL -
$475 - Early Bird (bought before 3/1)
$525 - General Admission (bought before 5/31)
$555 - Last Call (bought after 6/1)
**Food Included
🎟 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hempcrete-build-experience-festival-tickets-533769487907
WEEKEND FESTIVAL ("IT TAKES A VILLAGE") - (FAMILY FRIENDLY)
Early Bird 1 - $44 (ends March 31st)
Early Bird 2 - $55 (ends May 10th)
General Admission - $65 (ends June 7th)
Last Minute Tickets - $85
**Grab your meal tickets early to save $ on delicious vegetarian meals or feel free to BYO-Food. Gratitude!
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https://www.eventbrite.com/e/it-takes-a-village-festival-tickets-534623502287
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🔄 SCHOLARSHIPS & WORK TRADE OPPORTUNITIES
Apply here for a Scholarship: https://share.hsforms.com/1YjHe1ll7Tt22oHXLXgryoQ1fen9
Apply here for work trade opportunities: https://share.hsforms.com/1HcmzGasvS6WPYLJXWgGEsg1fen9
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MORE ABOUT THE WORKSHOPS BEING HELD THURSDAY - SATURDAY AFTERNOON
🧠💡You will learn about..
- Hemp/lime recipes, mixing & application
- The history of hemp and its many potential uses for our modern society - in materials, science, and technology.
- How to forage, harvest, and prepare fresh salads with veggies picked from the garden and with edible plants thriving in the forest around where we’ll be building.
- A unique shuttering / forming system designed by John Patterso
Retrofitting
- Planning a hempcrete build
- Foundations, framing & roofing
- Permitting structures using natural material
- Permitting for tiny houses
- Fitting into the construction schedule
- Cost of materials and how to source them
- Application methods and scaling up tools for larger projects
- Current opportunities in the natural building industry sector
- The natural building economy!
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🌷 Join us if you’d like to...
- Start your own hemp construction company or other kind of hemp business that serves a sub-sector or supplier niche
- Become part of global network of hemp builders & entrepreneurs
- Learn to build your own home
- Learn about starting a small hemp farm
- Learn about hemp processing on a small scale
- Get ready for the up-and-coming hemp building workforce
Note: This workshop is designed for up to 25 attendees.
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🛍 What you’ll also get...
- A gift bag with assorted nutritional hemp-based products
- A hempcrete workbook
- A certificate of completion printed on hemp
- Nutritional meals
- Connections in the natural building and hemp industry sector
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🛖♻️💫 Benefits of a Hemp/Lime Construction...
- More comfortable
- Cleaner indoor air
- Fire resistant
- Energy efficient
- Money savings
- Less maintenance
- No mold or mildew
- No pests
- Sequesters carbon
- Reduced illness
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📣 Featured Speakers:
- John Patterson of Tiny Hemp Houses
- Scott Guzman of Diggers Compost Cooperative & Permatours
- More to follow! Stay tuned!
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🌳 About the event organizer, Permatours:
Permatours produces transformational, community-driven events focused on permaculture action and natural building to foster food sovereignty and housing justice.
Permatours empowers people to forage, grow, & otherwise sustainably source their own food through educational workshops & connection to hyperlocal networks that exist outside of corporatized food systems.
Another major component of Permatours is the network it is building of land owners & non-land owners aligned around principles of sustainable living, natural construction, & community, thereby empowering people to navigate housing opportunities for themselves through peer-to-peer support. Learn more here: https://permatours.org/
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FLYER ARTIST
Shoutout to Tiffany Von Walter for the awesome graphic art & flyer you created for this event! :) <3
Learn more about our workshop guide & educator, John Patterson:
Industrial Hemp: The Future of Green Building
John Patterson’s Bio:
John Patterson is an internationally recognized thought leader and speaker who educates on living more holistically and building healthier homes with natural materials, including agricultural hemp. He is a product developer for building materials using more natural materials. John creates experiences centered around building with hemp for better health, comfort and efficiency. “We not only build houses using hemp, we connect people.” John Patterson
John is also the founder of Tiny Hemp Homes, whose mission is to encourage healthier, more comfortable and efficient homes, work and play places through cultivating a more natural built environment. “Through mindfully crafted multiple day experiences we aim to connect people from around the globe to initiate significant global transformation for the better of the people and the planet. We encourage people to have a deeper relationship with mother earth and fellow inhabitants leading a more vibrant and sustainable life.”
A carpenter and furniture designer by trade he has been researching sustainable living methods since the 70's. In 1997 John designed and built his own off-the-grid home complete with its own solar-based electricity plant. John is currently helping several groups plan and design holistic, self-reliant and affordable living communities.
John speaks about improved building systems, getting permission to build, land use restrictions, holistic income opportunities, community gardens, problem solving, preparedness and more affordable living. He also teaches about the benefits of cannabidiol, hemp foods and nutrition, and the many other uses and applications of bio-based materials and how industrial hemp is bringing back family farms around the globe.
Further accomplishments, experiences, and speaking gigs include:
Steve Allin’s Hemp Building Course June 2012
Ignite Fort Collins Hemp - Little Johnny Hemp Seed
Testifying on behalf of industrial hemp at the Colorado State Capitol
Hood Lab Hands on Hemp hempcrete demonstration
Speaker at the Fort Collins Library Hemp Rope not Dope
Speaker at the Fort Collins Sertoma Club explaining hemp for building
Speaker at Hemp Seed Revival Festival
Jared Polis Hemp Symposium educational vendor
Arise Festival Loveland Colorado 1 and 2 Hempcrete seminar
Hosted Steve Allin author of “Building With Hemp” in my home
Tiny House Project Build for Steve Allin’s 3 day course in Colorado
Taught 2 day Hempcrete workshop
NOCO Hemp Expo 1 and 2 educational demonstration
Doug Fine's Sante-fe New Mexico Carbon Economy Series
Colorado Hemp Awards Festival
Taught 2 day hempcrete workshop with 25 attendees.
Opening Day Speaker at the US Cannabis Expo
East Coast Hemp History Week Tour and Washington Lobbying for Hemp
Industrial Hemp Field Tour with NE legislators
Hemp Building Workshop with National Hemp Association, Denver, CO
Hemp building workshops in Pennsylvania, Grand Rapids Michigan, & Lincoln, Nebraska
Hemp Building in Poland: Featured speaker November 2015
National Hemp Association Speaker January 2016
NOCO Expo 3 Keynote Workshop Presenter
University of North Texas Engineering Department- February 2016
NOCO Hemp Expo 4
2 day hemp building Experience- Left Hand Hemp
2 day Hemp Building Experience- Left Hand Hemp
3 day Hemp Building Experience-
Living Simple- Tiny Houses festival
Consulting a school bus to tiny house conversion
Consulting for quonset hut hemp retrofit
Consulting in Wishart, Saskatchewan Canada
2 day hemp building experience- Hemp Today West Office
2-day Hemp building experience- Nipton, California
Sustainable Living Fair Speaker
Earth Day Fort Collins Speaker
NOCO Hemp Expo 5
SLV Hemp Symposium Panelist
Earth X- Dallas Earth day celebration
EDTX Talk
Self-reliance Expo- Dallas Texas
Consultant at the Quonset Hut Hemp Farm.
Leader for Tour de hemp.
