[AEN] Kerrville Natural Building Tour

[Brandi Clark]

From: Adams Kirkpatrick adams at sunflowerdesign.net
 
When:             This Monday, Memorial Day at 11:00am. (tour)
AND 
Saturday, June7, 11:00am (tour and dedication)
 
What:             Tour and dedication of new Natural buildings
 
Where:           Quiet Valley Ranch, Kerrville, Texas
 
Please join us for a tour and dedication of 5 new Natural Buildings during the Kerrville Folk Festival.   Everyone is welcome.  
 
Also, the Folk Festival has invited every colloquium participant to attend the final weekend for the official building dedication on Saturday June 7 at 11:00am.  Mark your calendars for June 7, we look forward to a reunion and celebration around our completed projects! check out the festival page to know what else is going on that weekend.
“In the spirit of strengthening and expanding our community of natural builders, central Texas invited the world to a Natural Building Colloquium, October 19-28, 2007. Colloquia are gatherings of people, ranging from experienced to simply curious, who come to learn from each other, to synergize their experience and to remind themselves of their larger vision. 
Our vision is of a lifestyle and building culture that could repeat itself indefinitely through successive generations. With careful searching many of us have concluded that the use of locally abundant, unprocessed materials such as earth, stone, straw and native timber provide the structure with which to achieve this vision. Cob, adobe, cob, earthbag, leichtlehm (straw-clay), strawbale, and timber frame are a few of the types of systems that exemplify this philosophy. Permaculture helps us integrate human patterns into the landscape surrounding our homes. 
There are other important aspects as well: delicious food that nourishes the body, music, laughter, creativity, families of all sorts, eager minds and willing hands. We seek to create homes that comfort the body and lift the soul. If you possess or aspire to any of the above, we invite you to join us this weekend to see what it’s all about.” 
http://www.kerrvillefolkfestival.com/festival_info.htm
 
The Quiet Valley Ranch is located 9 miles south of the Guadalupe River on TX Hwy 16 (Medina Hwy) between Kerrville and Medina, Texas. As you are heading south on Hwy 16 from Kerrville, we are on the right (west) side of the street about 1.5 miles passed the Mini-Mart.
 
Rick Wright, ranch manager, also invited any colloquium participant who is interested in attending the full festival as a staff volunteer to contact him immediately to make arrangements. His emails...rickwright52 at hotmail.com, rickwright52 at yahoo.com.
 
 
For pictures of the buildings and process…
Check the photos page on   http://www.naturalbuildingtexas.org/
and under my kerrloquium folder  http://picasaweb.google.com/satchelbhayes 
 

Welcome Home!
 
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Adams Kirkpatrick, 
SunflowerDesign: land + water + structures
PO Box 40704
AUSTIN 78704
www.sunflowerdesign.net
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