Workshops are Painful

Workshops are painful.   Workshops are hard. The planning, prepping, organizing, moving heavy materials, lugging salvaged cinder blocks from one place to another, shoveling sand and clay, teaching and talking nonstop for 2 days, running from tarp to tarp….and...

An All-Natural Classroom in Nicaragua

Last year, I went to Sabana Grande, Nicaragua to take part in a 2 week Natural Building workshop led by Liz Johndrow of Earthen Endeavors.  We lived and worked in a very small, rural village in northern Nicaragua.  In the workshop we worked with the women of the...

Natural Building in Rural South Carolina

Cross, SC (1 hr. from Charleston) April Magill, Root Down Designs + Elder Carlie Towne, Gullah/Geechee Angel Network & Elder in the Gullah/Geechee Nation   December 2011   Crossing Cultures & Creating Community Through Natural Building Thank you...