Hyperadobe Earthbag Workshop - Fall 2024

Get hands on hyperadobe experience and help us build our family home.

The Hyperadobe Workshop will be held on our homestead from November 9th-15, 2024. This weeklong event will include learning to work with hyperadobe earthbags, sustainable educational talks, homestead tours, delicious meals, and community with amazing people. Keep reading for all the details or signup below.

P.S. Huge thanks to our sponsor Volm Companies! Volm manufactures the highest quality hyperadobe bags that we use in all our builds, and attendees will even have the chance to buy rolls here on site at a discounted rate.

We Love Earthbags!

Hi friends, we're Jonathan & Ashley from Tiny Shiny Home. Our family is building an off-grid desert homestead from the ground up, literally! We started with no construction experience, and have managed to create a solar shed office, chicken garden, composting toilet outhouse, an outdoor shower, and are in the early stages of our huge family roundhouse, all using hyperadobe earthbags.

A New Kind of Workshop

Last year we teamed up with Hayden Annable of Curvatecture and built this adorable little superadobe dome home during a 1 week workshop here on our property.

This long form format really opened our eyes to the power of a small community coming together over a longer period of time, and we're going to do our best to capture that magic of building with a core group of awesome people for an entire week.

We've been working with hyperadobe earthbags for over 4 years now! We've laid thousands of feet of bag, moved hundreds of tons of dirt, and learned so much along the way. We've...

Published hundreds of videos of our build projects
Shown others how build a Dolly Bucket System
Inspired many to start their own hyperadobe journey
Run multiple previous hyperadobe workshops here on our property
Created the Ultimate Guide to Hyperadobe, with over 1 million views

Really, you could just pour over our YouTube channel and website and learn most of what you need to know. But sometimes you just need to see the process in person and do it for yourself.

So we'll be hosting a 7 day hyperadobe workshop here on our property. In addition to hands on earthbag building there will there will also be educational classes and tours of the Tiny Shiny Homestead covering natural building, permaculture techniques, solar power, composting, rainwater catchment, and more (See daily schedule below for more details.)

Date & Time

November 9th-15, 2024
8:00am - 3:00pm each day

Location

This will be held on our property in Cochise County, AZ. In our best efforts to keep our exact homestead location off the internets, we will be providing recommendations for overnight accommodations only to those signing up. For reference, the closest major towns are Benson & Willcox. There are plenty of options for staying close by:

Hotels
AirBNB's
Campgrounds
Boondocking

Schedule

Saturday (Nov 9th)
Morning: Intros, Basics of Hyperadobe, Foundations
Afternoon: Intro to Mixer, Intro to Laying Bag
Sunday (Nov 10th)
Morning: Bag Laying
Afternoon: Bag Laying, Intro to Forms and Cleats, Earthbag Building Tour
Monday (Nov 11th)
Morning: Bag Laying
Afternoon: Learning About Soils & Plaster
Tuesday (Nov 12th)
Morning: Bag Laying
Afternoon: Berm & Swale Tour, Off-Grid Solar Power Tour
Wednesday (Nov 13th)
Morning: Bag Laying
Afternoon: Bag Laying, Rainwater Catchment Tour
Thursday (Nov 14th)
Morning: Bag Laying
Afternoon: Hyperadobe vs Superadobe
Friday (Nov 15th)
Morning: Bag Laying
Afternoon: Wrapping up, TSH Tours

To get the full experience and we recommend committing to the full 7 day workshop ($620) - there are only 10 of these spots available.

For those that live close by and would prefer to drop in for certain classes or milestones, there are 5 additional spots open each day ($103/day). Please know the schedule isn't set in stone and will probably change based on how quickly attendees work, weather, etc...

Meals

Breakfast, lunch, snacks, and water will be provided each day. We'll have vegetarian options, but can't accommodate additional restrictions with our small kitchen. Get in touch if you'd like to sponsor a meal for attendees.

Important Details

Limited space - there will be a max of 15 people EACH DAY at this workshop.
We recommend reserving the full week, but you can reserve one or more individual days below.
Adults Only
When signing up, you'll need to sign the document saying you agree to be filmed as well as a liability release form.
This is physically demanding work - just so you know what you're signing up for :)
Bathroom options are nearby or we will have a port-a-potty on site
If rain is in the forecast we may re-schedule.
More info will be provided after signing up.