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Natural Plasters and Finishes

June 21 - June 22, 2025
Registration Closed

About This Workshop

Join us for a 2 day deep dive into learning about natural plasters and finishes.

Location

Potter Valley, CA

Join us for a 2 day deep dive into learning about natural plasters and finishes. We will cover plasters that are appropriate for an earthen building, as well as plasters that can go over the drywall in an existing home. This course will include both plasters made from found clay, including how to find and source the clay, as well as plasters from store bought materials.
Registration is closed for this workshop.

Workshop Host

Sasha Rabin

Earthen Shelter was founded by Sasha Rabin in 2013, and is now run by Sasha and her husband John Orcutt. We also just added a new tiny human to our family, who will be joining us for our family run workshops. Sasha Rabin fell in love with natural building in 2002, when she began her building career with an apprenticeship at the Cob Cottage Company. Since then she has taught extensively through organizations that she co-founded, Seven Generations Natural Builders and Vertical Clay, and through collaborations with The Yestermorrow Design Build School, The Canelo Project, Cal-Earth, The Solar Living Institute, and Quail Springs Permaculture. Teaching natural building has brought her as far as the Permaculture Research Institute (PRI) Jordan and PRI Kenya. Sasha currently sits on the Quail Springs board of directors, as well as the Cob Research Institute. After living at Quail Springs and running the Natural Building program for a decade, she has relocated back to northern CA to be closer to family.

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