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2009 was a busy year, finishing one home in Smeltertown (See Past Projects) and starting another. We currently have an opening for the upcoming 2011 season, so if you’ve dreamed of having a Strawbale Cottage built for you, we are ready to build it.
in 2010 we are currently finishing a new Strawbale home we designed and built for some folks in Sandpark just five miles from downtown Salida. (See Current Projects) Starting this 2010 Season it is our intention to focus primarily on education! Now more than ever we need alternatives to the American lifestyle paradigm. It is possible to experience true year around comfort In a home that heats and cools itself naturally by using the abundant energy that nature, not man, provides: The Sun. We will begin in the spring of 2010 to offer intensive Strawbale workshops, work parties and open houses. We look forward to seeing you at any of these.
I began this journey in 1994 with the purchase of remote property near Salida. Having now designed and built over 8 Strawbale homes from the ground up I have lots of experience that I hope to share with my Strawbale workshops. A well built Strawbale home by design should be passive solar, and should be finished with natural plasters. As a result our Strawbale workshops will focus on good passive solar design as well as the application and rendering of lime and earth plasters.
My wife Terri and I are living up at our land with a Tire Strawbale Hybrid attached to an historic pre-1900s log cabin we affectionately call The Way Back Inn. This place is surrounded by BLM and National Forest and is completely off-grid. We hope to have some Vacation Rentals available by 2010. We will provide lodging as well as camping opportunities. See Vacation Rentals. We also will be coordinating Strawbale workshops around the construction of our small Strawbale/hybrid Cottage rentals.
Starting August first, 2010, Terri and I are doing a bicycle tour on the west coast from Vancouver to San Diego. We are seeking opportunities to bicycle and work along that route [somewhere on the west coast.] If you have a project beginning in that time frame and are looking for consultation/design and/or hands-on experienced help ... get in touch with us!! Maybe we could work something out! - Greg
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