1 DAY WORKSHOP & TOUR
INMAN VALLEY SA
SATURDAY 4 JANUARY 2025
Earthship Workshop
Discover Earthships – sustainable homes built with friends, using repurposed materials like car tyres and bottles. These homes heat and cool naturally, grow food with greywater, and operate off-grid with independent power, water, and sewer systems. Earthships are bushfire-resilient, beautiful, and perfect for owner-builders seeking sustainable solutions.
Join Martin Freney, one of Australia’s leading Earthship experts, with a PhD in Earthship design and builder of the nation’s first council-approved Earthship, and Evie Fensom, owner builder of Earthship Inman Valley. Evie and Martin will guide you through hands-on construction techniques and answer your questions about making Earthships a reality.
Workshop Details
This immersive 1-day course in South Australia includes a tour of Earthship Inman Valley and practical experience with various construction techniques including rendering and tyre pounding. Participants also receive a free ticket to tour Earthship Ironbank in 2025.
Itinerary
Tickets
Discover Earthships – sustainable homes built with friends, using repurposed materials like car tyres and bottles. These homes heat and cool naturally, grow food with greywater, and operate off-grid with independent power, water, and sewer systems. Earthships are bushfire-resilient, beautiful, and perfect for owner-builders seeking sustainable solutions.
Join Martin Freney, one of Australia’s leading Earthship experts, with a PhD in Earthship design and builder of the nation’s first council-approved Earthship, and Evie Fensom, owner builder of Earthship Inman Valley. Evie and Martin will guide you through hands-on construction techniques and answer your questions about making Earthships a reality.
Workshop Details
This immersive 1-day course in South Australia includes a tour of Earthship Inman Valley and practical experience with various construction techniques including rendering and tyre pounding. Participants also receive a free ticket to tour Earthship Ironbank in 2025.
Itinerary
- 9:00am – Meet at Earthship Inman Valley (80min drive from the CBD)
- 9:15am - 10:00am - tour of Earthship
- 10am - 12:30pm – workshop
- 12:30pm - 1:30pm – Lunch (included)
- 1:30pm - 4:30pm – continue workshop
- 5:00pm – packup, drinks and nibbles
Tickets
- Early Bird, Mighty Network Members: $99
- Early Bird, Non-Members: $119
Sign up for free on Mighty Networks to access the member discount! CLICK HERE - Early Bird deadline: Midnight, Saturday 28 Dec 2024
- After Early Bird:
- Members: $119
- Non-Members: $139
- Half-Price Discount: Available for attendees of previous 4-week workshops (Inman Valley, Goolwa, Ironbank, Willunga) - please get in touch with Marty directly.
STUDENTS
We’re looking for energetic, open-minded people ready to get their hands dirty! Building an Earthship is about teamwork and creativity, using "people power" alongside simple tools. Sure, machines can do the job, but working with others brings more joy (and fewer fumes!). After all, people run on food – the ultimate renewable fuel – while fossil-fuelled machines just can’t match the fun or sustainability of good old human effort.
We’re looking for energetic, open-minded people ready to get their hands dirty! Building an Earthship is about teamwork and creativity, using "people power" alongside simple tools. Sure, machines can do the job, but working with others brings more joy (and fewer fumes!). After all, people run on food – the ultimate renewable fuel – while fossil-fuelled machines just can’t match the fun or sustainability of good old human effort.
EDUCATORS
Martin Freney is one of world's most enthusiastic and prolific Earthship builders, designers and researchers. In fact the inventor of Earthships, Michael Reynolds, refers to him as "the data guy" because of Marty's research that involves monitoring the thermal performance (temperature, humidity) of Earthships. Marty is the designer and owner-builder of Earthship Ironbank, Australia’s first council approved Earthship which is a popular BnB. He has designed numerous Earthships throughout Australia via his sustainable design consultancy Earthship Eco Homes. He has visited Taos, New Mexico, USA - home of the Earthship - twice, once as an intern in 2008 and a second time in 2011 as part of his PhD which investigated the thermal performance of Earthships and their eco footprint compared to other types of housing. He has built Earthships with Earthship Biotecture in the USA, Indonesia and Australia. He recently appeared on the Channel 7 News talking about his research team's latest research on tyre walls - WATCH HERE.
Martin Freney is one of world's most enthusiastic and prolific Earthship builders, designers and researchers. In fact the inventor of Earthships, Michael Reynolds, refers to him as "the data guy" because of Marty's research that involves monitoring the thermal performance (temperature, humidity) of Earthships. Marty is the designer and owner-builder of Earthship Ironbank, Australia’s first council approved Earthship which is a popular BnB. He has designed numerous Earthships throughout Australia via his sustainable design consultancy Earthship Eco Homes. He has visited Taos, New Mexico, USA - home of the Earthship - twice, once as an intern in 2008 and a second time in 2011 as part of his PhD which investigated the thermal performance of Earthships and their eco footprint compared to other types of housing. He has built Earthships with Earthship Biotecture in the USA, Indonesia and Australia. He recently appeared on the Channel 7 News talking about his research team's latest research on tyre walls - WATCH HERE.
Evie is the project manager and owner builder of Earthship Inman Valley. With a wealth of experience ranging from costs of building to how to get render to stick to strawbales and how to survive a long hot summer workshop during covid lockdown with 30 volunteers on site, Evie has a lot of great advice to share with potential owner builders.
WHAT TO BRING
SAFETY GEAR, WORK CLOTHES & TOOLS
SAFETY GEAR, WORK CLOTHES & TOOLS
- Work shoes
- Work gloves (leather riggers or latex dipped gardening gloves, whatever you prefer)
- Work clothes
- Sun screen
- Sun glasses (and/or safety glasses)
- Hat
- Water bottle
- pencil
- notebook
- Change of clothes/shoes
- NOTE: Any other PPE that you need will be supplied
TERMS AND CONDITIONS - PLEASE READ!
- No refunds, except in exceptional circumstances (see below). Please be sure you have made all the necessary arrangements to your life before you apply and make payment. If you can't make it to this event for some reason you can use your ticket as credit toward a future Earthship Eco Homes event. Your money won't be wasted!
- In the event of lack of interest, bushfire, extreme weather event, pandemic shut-down/border closures/quarantine, or other calamitous event, the workshop will be postponed or cancelled. If the organisers postpone the event, you can decide to receive a 90% refund (10% is retained to cover administration expenses), or you can keep your ticket and attend on the new (postponed) dates. If the organisers cancel the event, you will receive a full refund.
- Under no circumstances will your travel expenses be refunded.
- Your place in the workshop is finalised on receipt of full payment.
- Participants who are unable to comply with instructions regarding the safe and the orderly running of the workshop will NOT be allowed to participate any further in the activities (including camping) and will forfeit their payment for the workshop.
- Sexual, racial or any type of harassment will not be tolerated.
- If you are under 18 years of age, you must have your parent/guardian's permission (ask them to send an email).
- All participants must complete the online application form and agree to these terms and conditions.
REGISTRATION AND TICKETS
STEP 1 - REGISTRATION
Use this LINK to register and let us know why you want to come and what you like to eat!
Use this LINK to register and let us know why you want to come and what you like to eat!
STEP 2 - PURCHASE TICKET
Buy a non-refundable ticket via the link at the end of the Registration form (step 1). If you can't make it to this event for some reason you can use your ticket as credit toward a future Earthship Eco Homes event. Your money won't be wasted!
Here is the handy LINK to purchase tickets (but please fill out the rego form in step 1)
Buy a non-refundable ticket via the link at the end of the Registration form (step 1). If you can't make it to this event for some reason you can use your ticket as credit toward a future Earthship Eco Homes event. Your money won't be wasted!
Here is the handy LINK to purchase tickets (but please fill out the rego form in step 1)
STEP 3 - GET READY
Put those dates in the diary, get some PPE, and get in touch with Martin if you have any questions. And please, help us spread the word about this workshop - tell your friends!
Put those dates in the diary, get some PPE, and get in touch with Martin if you have any questions. And please, help us spread the word about this workshop - tell your friends!