** Due to COVID-19 social distancing practices, the Farm Tour is going virtual! Read more for details

On your virtual visit to Quail Springs, you will learn about: growing food in the high desert; tending a variety of healthy food-giving animals; sustainable shelter; living regeneratively; and stewarding land.

The event will include a tour of our gardens, animal systems, natural buildings, alternative technologies, and more. After the tour, participants will enjoy a question & answer session with our farm managers.

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** Due to COVID-19 social distancing practices, the Farm Tour is going virtual! Read more for details

On your virtual visit to Quail Springs, you will learn about: growing food in the high desert; tending a variety of healthy food-giving animals; sustainable shelter; living regeneratively; and stewarding land.

The event will include a tour of our gardens, animal systems, natural buildings, alternative technologies, and more. After the tour, participants will enjoy a question & answer session with our farm managers.

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In this introduction to Cob & Natural Building you will learn how to build with earthen materials in both a hands on and a classroom setting.

The introduction to Cob & Natural Building course is appropriate for both first-time builders and for professionals in the building trade who are interested in natural materials. In this cob workshop, we focus on the characteristics of the natural materials most commonly used in construction: clay soil, sand, and fibers. Our main focus will be cob, though we will touch on various other building techniques that utilize the same materials, including adobe block, light straw-clay, wattle and daub, and plasters. We will discuss how to find and choose appropriate soil for construction, how to create various mixes, how to attach wood to earthen walls, and how to use earthen materials to build walls, sculpt niches, shelves, and furniture.

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