Join us at Diggers Co-op in Acton, ME to learn about building with hemp - including sourcing the materials, mixing the recipe, & installing it to form a livable structure.
We’ll be co-creating the structure for a Solviva Greenhouse, which will enable Diggers to grow food year round!
Opt to participate in our hempcrete building interactive ONLINE COURSE before attending the in-person workshop, to learn from our teacher, John Patterson. (Course videos were captured at our event last year, held at Diggers Co-op). More info to follow for access to the online course. Stay tuned!
ABOUT THE PRODUCERS:
Permatours is a non profit focused on increasing 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.
MORE ON THE HEMPCRETE BUILD
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 3 days of education centered around building with hempcrete - from sourcing the materials to mixing the recipe and installing it - 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 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 over 18 and of all abilities are welcome to attend, 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. 3 healthy meals per day (Thursday - Sunday) are included in your ticket price!
Join a movement focused on creating healthier living spaces that can reverse the damaging effects of CO2 emissions!
More on what you’ll learn:
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!
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.
What you’ll also get:
A hempcrete workbook
A certificate of completion printed on hemp
Nutritional meals
Connections in the natural building and hemp industry sector
3 healthy meals per day (Thursday - Sunday)
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
Featured Speakers:
John Patterson of Tiny Hemp Houses
Scott Guzman of Diggers Compost Cooperative & Permatours
More to programming to follow! Stay tuned!
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SCHEDULE:
~ THURSDAY~
Check in, set up your camp and get ready for fun.
6 PM: Opening Circle, followed by dinner
7 PM: Campfire
~ FRIDAY~
9 AM: Breakfast
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 - 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
~ SATURDAY ~
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
1 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 & Entertainment (Stay Tuned)!
~ SUNDAY~
We will study the many ways and places to install our system, including installing floors and ceilings.
9 AM: Breakfast
12 PM to 1 PM : Lunch
1 PM to 4:30 PM: Plaster and finishing, Learn how to mix and apply the finish plaster to our wall
5:30 PM: Closing Circle
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Dog Policy:
Furry friends are strongly discouraged, with the exception of certified service animals (who must remain on leash).
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SCHOLARSHIP & WORK TRADE OPPORTUNITIES:
Apply here for a Scholarship.
Apply here for work trade opportunities.
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RV Accommodations
If you're planning to join us in an RV, please note that we do not have 220 V electrical hook ups (just 120 V extension cords). We can support up to 6 RVs so please let us know early if you'd like to reserve a spot.
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Learn more about our workshop guide & educator, John Patterson:
Industrial Hemp: The Future of Green Building
This Guy Makes Houses From Hemp
Colorado builder envisions hemp in commercial buildings
John Patterson’s Bio:
John 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
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More on 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.
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ADDRESS:
Please register HERE for the address.
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PERMATOURS EVENT AGREEMENTS:
We value active participation in all facets of Earth Care, People Care, and Fair Share.
We treat the land and all beings with love and respect.
We do not tolerate hate language, discrimination, or violence of any kind.
We support an accessible and equitable environment for all beings.
Equality is not an assumption, and we strive to promote equitable access.
Consent is required for all: commitments (including time/energy expectations),
verbal interactions, physical contact, emotional support, desire for intimacy, etc.
We encourage curiosity to be a leader against assumptions.
We support the use of the acronym FRIES to share concisely that consent is:
F - freely given
R - reversible
I - informed
E - enthusiastic
S - specific
Permatours is dedicated to holding containers (intentional spaces) that remain free of alcohol,
powders, pills, and gasses. Your presence, in times of joy and difficulty, is welcome here!
We support a space of interdependence, and mutual aid. We trust that when we arrive and
are able to do for ourselves what we can, with the interstanding we may not be able to do
everything, we are better aligned to receive the aid we truly need, and aid others in areas of
their needs. Building mutually beneficial relationships and working together in symbiosis are
key aspects of being able to thrive physically, emotionally, and spiritually, as a community.
We support a space of radical self-reliance, encouraging everyone to show up able to meet
most, if not all, of their own needs. The community is here to support them when/if needed.
We observe the 4 Agreements, with the inclusion of the 5th agreement, by Don Miguel Ruiz.
1. Be impeccable with your word.
2. Don’t take anything personally.
3. Don’t make any assumptions.
4. Always do your best.
5. Be skeptical, but learn to listen.
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Thank you! We hope to see you there!
With gratitude,
Permatours & Crew