consulting AND EDUCATION

Our consulting services and educational workshops are designed to empower our communities. From early design guidance to dedicated women's carpentry classes, we offer the vital education needed to make your natural building dream a reality. Additionally, our professional education includes Oregon State University/ SOU/ PSU, SOCAN and Turtle Island Permaculture Institute.

our philosophy:

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Demystifying Construction

We believe in demystifying the complexity of home construction. Our educational workshops provide a profound sense of empowerment, showing people that building their own home is entirely possible.

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The Cascading Effect

Our workshops foster deep community connection by encouraging a cascading effect. As groups learn together, they pass the knowledge along, eventually helping each other build their individual homes.

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Place-Based Living

We aim to reconnect people and places by educating them to build structures that directly reflect their localized, authentic patterns of living using locally sourced materials.

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Healthy Human Patterns

By teaching the use of natural materials, our consulting and education services help enhance the healthy human patterns that ultimately elevate both individuals and society.

Consulting services

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Our consulting services support you in a variety of capacities. We expertly guide prospective homebuilders prior to the design phase and empower homeowners on tight budgets who want to DIY their natural space as much as possible.

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hands-on workshops

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Led by our educational branch, Flying Hammer Productions, our hands-on workshops cover natural building and conventional carpentry. These empowering sessions demystify construction, foster deep community connections, and provide the practical experience needed to actively build your own home

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carpentry classes

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Led by our educational branch, Flying Hammer Productions, our conventional carpentry classes are specifically designed for women. Taught since 1998, these empowering workshops demystify home construction, giving you the confidence to actively build your own projects.

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Formal education

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Providing university lectures in person or via Zoom (such as for Oregon State University/ SOU/ PSU, SOCAN and Turtle Island Permaculture Institute) and local presentations on topics like natural building, fire resiliency and biobased wall systems  and carbon sequestering wall systems. 

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