Yestermorrow Sustainable Building School is located in Warren, Vermont and offers various hands-on courses in sustainable design, construction, woodworking, furniture making, green building, and more. It has been operating as a non-profit organization since 1980.
They offer 1-day to 10-week intense courses taught by top architects, builders, and craftsmen. They also have certificate programs for woodworking, sustainable building and design, and natural building. This is a place I would absolutely LOVE to spend some time in. Here is an example of just some of their course offerings…
- Green Development Best Practices (3 days)
- Build an Earthen Oven (2 days)
- Home Design/Build (12 days)
- Solar Design (2 days)
- Green Remodeling (2 days)
- Community Design/Build (12 days)
- Put the Fab Back in Pre-Fab (5 days)
- Wind Power (1 day)
- Green Building Materials (2 days)
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- Invisible Structures: Strategies Beyond Building Green (2 days)
- Beginning Furniture-making (5 days)
- Learn to Build a Skin-On-Frame Kayak (2 days)
- Intro to the Woodshop (2 days)
- Small Scale Design/Build (7 days)
- Permaculture Design Certification (12 days)
- Straw bale Design/Build (5 days)
- Green Building Materials (2 days)
- Intro to SketchUp (2 days)
- Sustainable Communities of the Future (5 days)
Attending Yestermorrow is about learning and expanding your knowledge, skills, and experience. There are one-day workshops and three-month certificate programs with a focus on hands-on experience. The campus offers learning experiences, projects, usage of mechanical systems, and examples of previous work. I hope to visit this place soon!
Yestermorrow is located at 189 VT Rte 100, Warren, VT 05674
They can be reached by telephone at 888-496-5541
On the web at www.yestermorrow.org
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In fact, we are offering a new course this fall entitled “Less is More: Designing The Smaller Home” which might be of interest to readers of the Tiny House Talk blog. It is a 5 day course specifically for folks interested in going through the hands-on process of designing their own tiny home. October 31-November 5, 2010. Tuition $750. Location: Yestermorrow Design/Build School, Waitsfield, VT. For more information or to register: http://www.yestermorrow.org/courses/detail/less…
In fact, we are offering a new course this fall entitled “Less is More: Designing The Smaller Home” which might be of interest to readers of the Tiny House Talk blog. It is a 5 day course specifically for folks interested in going through the hands-on process of designing their own tiny home. October 31-November 5, 2010. Tuition $750. Location: Yestermorrow Design/Build School, Waitsfield, VT. For more information or to register: http://www.yestermorrow.org/courses/detail/less…