Sustainable Living Apprenticeship Program

The Sustainable Living Apprenticeship Program is geared toward those who want to immerse themselves into learning sustainable living techniques. Our rigorous curriculum offers you the hands-on experience to build your own home, start a business building for others, or kick-start a teaching career in the green industry. We offer a range of earth building techniques which utilize local, recycled, and low cost materials. Our goal is to give you the skills and guide you on the path toward self-sufficiency.

Our program includes techniques such as cob, adobe domes, Superadobe, siting, design, foundations, drainage, flooring, doors and windows, niches and shelving, artistic elements, living roofs, reciprocal roofs, plastering, earthen paints, rocket mass heaters, traditional masonry heaters, earthen ovens, composting toilets, food dehydrators, aquaponics, Permaculture, and more. Topics covered and hands-on experience will be determined by the length and timing of your stay. During all of 2017 we will continuously be working on multiple cob structures with living roofs, an outdoor kitchen with an earthen oven and a barrel oven, and much more!

A Sustainable Living Apprenticeship Certificate is offered after completion of the 3 month program.