HEMPCRETE BUILDING EXPERIENCE
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.
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! SEE WEEKEND SCHEDULE HERE 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!
**WEEKEND ONLY** FESTIVAL TICKETS ARE ALSO AVAILABLE HERE
MORE ABOUT THE HEMPCRETE BUILDING WORKSHOPS:
🧠💡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 Patterson
- 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 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
🛖♻️💫 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
- Tina Trout, Natural Farmer & Gardener of LaLa Gardens Cooperative
More to follow! Stay tuned!
🥧 Featured Chefs
Chef Bliss & HannaH will be planning the lunch/dinner menu for the hempcrete build experience. HannaH will be working with a team to create delicious nurturing vegetarian meals. She has been Chef Bliss' Sous Chef at events for over a decade. Chef Bliss was owner/Chef of Fabadesiac in Avon, Connecticut where he created and executed 12 menus in 12 months. The name of the restaurant came from combining the words “fabulous” and “aphrodisiac”. “Good food puts you in the mood” was the restaurant's philosophy. Check out HannaH's Field video series, "Super Snack Sunday" on You Tube for some flavorful inspiration here.
📚 More on 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.
DOG POLICY:
Furry friends are strongly discouraged, with the exception of certified service animals on leash.
🔄 SCHOLARSHIPS & WORK TRADE OPPORTUNITIES
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Join a movement focused on creating healthier living spaces that can reverse the damaging effects of CO2 emissions!
