Cascadia on the Ground: Summer Workshop Series
Cascadia on the Ground is our summer workshop series that showcase and teach the skills needed to build the world that we want to see.
Located in a beautiful 98 acre valley in south western Washington, Cascadia on the Ground is a weekly workshop series and serves as our summer educational and recreational hub. Among forests, fields and streams, classes, workshops and art projects take place focused on skills we need to make the changes we want to see happen, including movement building, sustainable living, alternative building methods, and inclusive community building. With accommodation ranging from hike in camp sites, the experience focuses on connecting people to the land that we live on, and proactive ways to preserve it.
Aircrete Dome Building Workshop
16 Day workshop: August 9- August 26
During this 16 day workshop, you’ll deepen your connection to your creative spirit while learning the fine art of AirCrete Architecture. Have the time of your life with new friends from around the Cascadia Bioregion and world.
Accommodations and Food are Provided. Our workshops are an amazing opportunity to learn how to build your own structurally reinforced AirCrete dome home with your own hands from scratch!
You’ll learn how to:
– Make AirCrete
– Make forms to mass produce AirCrete blocks
– Build forms for arches and round windows
– Use a compass arm to construct a dome
– Wrap your dome with a super strong earthquake safe outer surface.
sustainable & off grid building Technologies
BETTER HOMES FOR $10,000 OR LESS
August 2nd – 4th
Explore beautiful alternatives to the Mc Mansions of mundane suburbs as we explore sustainable and off grid housing solutions. We’ll compare and contrast Tinyhouses, Yurts, AirCrete Domes and Earthships for their durability, livability and sustainability. Learn about composting toilets, green energy, biochar, and permaculture will round out the workshop.
SALMON HABITAT RESTORATION
HELPING THE SALMON COME HOME
August 23rd – 25th
Become acquainted with the realities of Salmon habitat restoration and conservation. Learn from Shoalwater Bay Tribal teachers about the history, significance and economy of salmon here. Government scientists and local conservationists add knowledge and working solutions about the impacts we each can make on this issue that affects everyone. Join us on this journey of helping the salmon home.
Hip Camp
Come camp with us!
Our summer scholastic program brings expert instructors together for weekend workshops that give you practical skills and valuable takeaways. Through hands on building projects in our wilderness classroom, your learning is as immersive as it is informative. Starting on Friday evening and ending before sundown on Sunday, our focused weekend schedule turns a weekend of camping into learning.
Weekend Workshops
Our summer scholastic program brings expert instructors together for weekend workshops that give you practical skills and valuable takeaways. Through hands on building projects in our wilderness classroom, your learning is as immersive as it is informative. Starting on Friday evening and ending before sundown on Sunday, our focused weekend schedule turns a weekend of camping into learning.
All-Inclusive Experience
Life really becomes a vacation when you don’t have to cook! With delicious meals coming from our community kitchen in a converted hay barn, we take camping epicurean. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are served family style giving you a chance to socialize and relax with your fellow students and instructors. We’ve even applied some permaculture principles we teach to our meal plans as we strive to build a self sustaining farming practice where the land we all stay on will provide the food we eat. Sustainability from farm to fork!
Nurtured by nature
Our workshop schedule leaves time to enjoy the beautiful environment of our Pacific County location. With daily nature walks focusing on healing and eatable native plants and free time to reflect in a sun-kissed glade or relax by the river, being nurtured by nature comes naturally.