Join Brad for an Earthworks Workshop:
“Plant The Rain” Permaculture Course

Hosted by 7ONE8 DESIGN in conjunction with Earthship Biotecture in Taos NM

*** POSTPONED *** NEW DATES TBA ***
As human beings we have an interdependent relationship with the entire planet. We also have a special and immediate dependency on the planet’s dwindling water resources. Permaculture, like an Earthship, is a sustainable design system that enables healing relationships between human beings and the living systems of our host planet.

The Earthship Academy presents a special hands-on permaculture workshop with rainwater-harvesting designer and practitioner Brad Lancaster. Brad is the author of Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands & Beyond, Volume I (2nd edition) and Volume II. In this preliminary site assessment and 5-day course, Earthship Biotecture’s radically sustainable green buildings will converge with whole-system permaculture-design earthworks!

• Learn to assess and build on a site’s existing potential.
• Achieve hands-on implementation of water harvesting earthworks led by Brad.
• Learn from the Earthship Community’s rainwater-harvesting systems by which roof runoff supplies all domestic water.
• Explore holistic homestead design that enhances and benefits from surrounding soil, water, and vegetation.
• Transform exposed, arid landscapes with free, onsite waters and sheltering vegetation that produces an abundance of
resources such as food, shade, medicine, wildlife habitat, wind breaks, and more.
• Co-design earthworks using key principles and ethics to maximize benefits for Earthships (as well as other types of
dwellings) and the landscape where they reside.
• Live in and interact with Earthships for the duration of the workshop (optional).

Location:
2 Earthship Way
Tres Piedras, NM
Dates:
Preliminary site assessment & donation-based evening public presentation: *** POSTPONED *** NEW DATES TBA ***
Earthworks course: *** POSTPONED *** NEW DATES TBA ***
Tuition:
Option 1, $600: Covers course and materials
Option 2, $725: Covers course, materials, housing, and participation in preliminary site assessment
What you will need to bring with you:
Sunscreen, sunhat, sunglasses, comfortable work clothes that you don’t mind getting dirty, water bottle, work gloves, and notebook
Suggested reading:
Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume I (2nd edition) & Volume II
Registration:
*** POSTPONED *** NEW DATES TBA ***
earthshipstore.com/es-learning-opportunities/earthworks-workshop-2014