Interested in capturing and storing rainwater for irrigation or fire suppression?  Participants will learn about rainwater catchment system components  beneficial uses  appropriate collection surfaces  pre-storage filtration  and tank storage options. Bring a calculator and your project ideas  including a site plan showing roof(s)  possible tank locations and use areas (e.g. garden or landscape plants). Property elevation changes and roof angles are also helpful.

Location: Oregon State University Extension Office, 569 Hanley Rd, Central Point, OR

Cost: $15 (Proceeds benefit OSU Extension Progams)

Almost 50% of all the energy used in North America each year goes to construct  heat  cool and operate buildings!  Energy efficient homes made from carbon storing materials like straw are beautiful  fire resistant  and can help us live more sustainably. Learn how straw bale buildings are designed and built. Presentation includes details explaining design and construction techniques  options  and a look at a few of the 80 permitted straw bale homes in Jackson County. Visit https://www.ashland.or.us/ for registration information.

Location: Ashland’s North Mountain Park Nature Center.

COST: $10 (Proceeds support NMP Nature Center)

Interested in capturing and storing rainwater for irrigation or fire suppression?  Participants will learn about rainwater catchment system components  beneficial uses  appropriate collection surfaces  pre-storage filtration  and tank storage options. Bring a calculator and your project ideas  including a site plan showing roof(s)  possible tank locations and use areas (e.g. garden or landscape plants). Property elevation changes and roof angles are also helpful. Visit https://www.ashland.or.us/ for registration information.

Location: Ashland’s North Mountain Park Nature Center
COST: $10 (Proceeds support NMP Nature Center)

Learn about water use in the rural Applegate Valley. Speakers will present on household, and yard and garden water conservation efficiencies, farm, range land, and forestry best practices, grey water systems, rainwater collection systems, and pond building. This event is sponsored by A Greater Applegate and the Applegate Watershed Partnership Council. Look for registration information by late April at A Greater Applegate’s website https://agreaterapplegate.org.

Participants will learn about rainwater catchment system components, beneficial uses, appropriate collection surfaces, pre-storage filtration, and tank storage options. Presentation features pictures of rainwater catchment systems throughout Jackson County—large and small, rural and urban. Bring a calculator and your project ideas, including a site plan showing roof(s), possible tank locations and use areas (e.g. garden or landscape plants). Property elevation changes and roof angles are also helpful.

Ashland, OR North Mountain Park Nature Center
COST: $10

Register at ashland.or.us/Register, or visit AshlandParksandRec.org

Introduction to Straw Bale Building Design and Construction

Learn what's involved in designing and building energy efficient homes made from straw bales! These beautiful, fire resistant, carbon storing structures can help us live more sustainably. Presentation includes details from the California Straw Building Association’s book Straw Bale Building Details: An Illustrated Guide for Design and Construction, explaining construction techniques, options, and a look at some of the 80 permitted straw bale homes in Jackson County.

Ashland, OR North Mountain Park Nature Center
COST: $10
Register at ashland.or.us/Register, or visit AshlandParksandRec.org

Interested in capturing and storing rainwater for irrigation?  Participants will learn about rainwater catchment system components, beneficial uses, appropriate collection surfaces, pre-storage filtration, and tank storage options. Bring a calculator and your project ideas, including a site plan showing roof(s),  possible tank locations and use areas (e.g. garden or landscape plants). Property elevation changes and roof angles are also helpful. For more information call Ashland’s North Mountain Park Nature Center at 541-488-6606 or register on line at https://www.ashland.or.us.

INSTRUCTOR:  Jim Reiland of Many Hands Builders is a licensed contractor specializing in rainwater catchment systems and straw bale building.

COST     Free

Almost 50% of all the energy used in North America each year goes to construct, heat, cool and operate buildings!  Energy efficient homes made from carbon sequestering materials like earth and straw are beautiful, fire resistant, and can help us live more sustainably. Learn how straw bale buildings are designed and built. Presentation includes details from the California Building Association’s book Straw Bale Building Details: An Illustrated Guide for Design and Construction. explaining construction techniques, options, and a look at a few of 50 permitted straw bale homes in Jackson County. For more information call Ashland’s North Mountain Park Nature Center at 541-488-6606.  Register on line at

COST     Free

Interested in capturing and storing rainwater for irrigation? Partici­pants will learn about rainwater catchment system components, beneficial uses, appropriate collection surfaces, pre-storage filtration, and storage tank options. Bring a calculator and your project ideas, including a site plan showing roof(s), possible tank locations and use areas (e.g. garden or landscape plants). Property elevation changes and roof angles are also helpful. Our discussion will also include cost-effective ways to reduce run-off, pros and cons of different designs, and project examples.

For anyone looking for practical instruction in designing and building a rainwater catchment system.

Where: North Mountain Park Nature Center, Ashland, Oregon

COST FREE. Class Size Limited. Visit www.ashland.or.us to register

Interested in capturing and storing rainwater for irrigation? Partici­pants will learn about rainwater catchment system components, beneficial uses, appropriate collection surfaces, pre-storage filtration, and storage tank options. Bring a calculator and your project ideas, including a site plan showing roof(s), possible tank locations and use areas (e.g. garden or landscape plants). Property elevation changes and roof angles are also helpful. Our discussion will also include cost-effective ways to reduce run-off, pros and cons of different designs, and project examples.

For anyone looking for practical instruction in designing and building a rainwater catchment system.

Where: North Mountain Park Nature Center, Ashland, Oregon

COST FREE. Class Size Limited. Visit www.ashland.or.us to register

Almost 40% of all energy used in the United States is for heat­ing, cooling and operating buildings. Nearly 10% more is used to manufacture construction materials. Building a new home is one of the most environmentally costly things we do because it has immediate and ongoing impacts! Energy efficient homes made from carbon sequestering materials like straw can help us live more sustainably. Learn how straw bale buildings are designed and built. Presentation includes details explaining construction techniques, options, and a look at a few of nearly 50, permitted, straw bale homes in Jackson County. Many presentation images dawn from the California Straw Building Association’s book Straw Bale Building Details: An Illustrated Guide for Design and Construction.

For prospective home owners, designers, architects, or contrac­tors interested in learning how straw bale buildings are designed and built.

Where: North Mountain Park Nature Center, Ashland, Oregon

COST FREE. Class Size Limited. Visit www.ashland.or.us to register.

Tired of not having an alternative to paint for your interior walls? Non-toxic, environmentally friendly clay plasters can transform conventional painted sheetrock walls to beautify your home! These hand-crafted finishes help to moderate interior humidity and add thermal mass, too. Participants will learn the basics of designing and applying clay plaster to a wall. Expect plenty of hands-on experience during this four-hour class, from measuring pigments and plaster materials, calculating volumes, mixing plasters, and applying them to a vertical surface with a hawk and trowel. Clay isn't caustic, but can be messy. Wear comfortable clothing and closed toed shoes. Bring a water bottle and a snack.

This class will be held at the pavilion in Ashland’s North Mountain Nature Center.

Instructors: Jim Reiland of Many Hands Builders is a licensed general contractor specializing in straw bale building, earth and lime plastering. Lydia Doleman of Flying Hammer Productions is a natural building educator and author of a book about light-straw-clay building.

Class fee: $30.00

Visit Ashland’s Park and Recreation Website to register for this class:

https://www.ashland.or.us/Page.asp?NavID=14060

Jim Reiland, a contributing author to Straw Bale Building Details: An Illustrated Guide for Design and Construction (a book by the California Straw Building Association) will be at Barnes & Noble in Medford to discuss how straw bale buildings differ from conventional “green” buildings, how they can be an important part of the effort to mitigate climate change, and how they are designed and built. There are over fifty permitted straw bale homes in Jackson County; learn more about this building system made from locally abundant, carbon sequestering, annually renewable residue from a grain harvest, and how it creates super insulated, beautiful buildings.

Bloomsbury Books in Ashland Oregon will host Jim Reiland, a contributing author of a book from the California Straw Building Association. He’ll discuss how straw bale buildings differ from conventional “green” buildings, and how these beautiful homes can be an important part of the effort to mitigate climate change. Learn more about this building system made from locally abundant, carbon sequestering, annually renewable residue from a grain harvest, and how it creates super insulated buildings.

In this case, an evening with one of the authors! Jim Reiland will talk about Straw Bale Building Details: An Illustrated Guide for Design and Construction at Rebel Heart Books in Jacksonville, OR. He is one of nearly twenty principal contributors and managing editor of this California Straw Building Association book. Learn more about how straw bale walls create beautiful, energy efficient, fire resistant buildings from a locally abundant food crop residue, all while sequestering carbon!

Geoffrey Riley, host of Jefferson Public Radio’s Jefferson Exchange, with talk with Jim Reiland, contributing author of the California Straw Building Association’s new book, Straw Bale Building Details: An Illustrated Guide for Design and Construction. A twelve-year volunteer effort by CASBA members, this book is a comprehensive guide to designing and building with this locally abundant, annually renewable, non-toxic, carbon sequestering building material. Building with straw bales has been in the Oregon Building Code since 2001, and this book shows the many effective ways to construct plastered straw bale wall assemblies that create energy efficient, long lasting, beautiful buildings. Tune in!

Interested in capturing and storing rainwater for irrigation? Partici­pants will learn about rainwater catchment system components, beneficial uses, appropriate collection surfaces, pre-storage filtration, and tank storage options. Bring a calculator and your project ideas, including a site plan showing roof(s), possible tank locations and use areas (e.g. garden or landscape plants). Property elevation changes and roof angles are also helpful. Our discussion will also include cost-effective ways to reduce run-off, pros and cons of different designs, and project examples.

For anyone interested in capturing and using rainwater at home looking for practical instruction for designing and building your own water catchment system.

Where: North Mountain Park Nature Center, Ashland, Oregon

COST FREE

Almost 40% of all energy used in the United States is for heat­ing, cooling and operating buildings. Nearly 10% more is used to manufacture construction materials. Building a new home is one of the most environmentally costly things we do because it has immediate and ongoing impacts! Energy efficient homes made from carbon sequestering materials like straw can help us live more sustainably. Learn how straw bale buildings are designed and built. Presentation includes details explaining construction techniques, options, and a look at a few of nearly 50, permitted, straw bale homes in Jackson County.

For prospective home owners, designers, architects, or contrac­tors interested in learning how straw bale buildings are designed and built.

Where: North Mountain Park Nature Center, Ashland, Oregon

COST FREE

Almost 40% of all energy used in the United States is for heating, cooling,and powering buildings, and an additional 10% is used to manufacture construction materials; building a new home is one of the most environmentally costly things we do because it has immediate and ongoing impacts! Energy efficient homes made with carbon sequestering materials like straw can help us live more sustainably. Learn how straw bale buildings are designd and built. Presentation includes details explaining construction techniques and options, with several images from Jackson County's nearly forty permitted straw bale homes.

Ashland North Mountain Park Nature Center.  Please register online or call the NatureCenter at 541-488-6606.

Rainwater Catchment System

Design

Interested in capturing and storing rainwater for

irrigation? Participants will learn about rainwater

catchment system components: beneficial uses,

appropriate collection surfaces, pre-storage filtration,

and tank storage options. Bring a calculator and

your project ideas--site plan showing roof(s) and possible

tank location use areas, (e.g. gardens etc.), property

elevation changes etc. Includes discussion of cost

effective ways to reduce run-off, design trade-offs, and

project profiles. Please register online or call the Nature

Center at 541-488-6606.

AGES 16 & Up

DAY Thursday

DATE Jun 29

TIME 6-8 PM

PLACE Ashland's North Mountain Park Nature Center

COST $7

Medford Green Drinks holds monthly meetings at Capers Restaurant in Medford. The February 20th presentation will explore recent developments in straw bale building, and discuss the promise of natural building materials like straw to reduce the climate change impacts of construction by lowering a home's embodied energy and sequestering carbon.