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STRAWBALE BUILDING COURSES AND WORKSHOPS Attending a strawbale building course or a volunteer workshop is a great way to learn more about strawbale building and meet other like minded people, and they are usually very good fun! Courses. The Dharma House in the languedoc region of southern France Strawbale building and Lime rendering workshops, for full details check out their website. www.thedharmahouse.com/ info@thedharmahouse.com The Hollies Centre for Practical Sustainability, Castletown, Enniskeane, Co. Cork, Ireland. Tel--00 353 23 47001 For details of the courses held at The Hollies Contact Rob Hopkins thehollies@eircom.net The Hollies strawbale building Carymoor Environmental Centre Dimmer Lane, Castle Cary, Somerset. BA7 7NR Tel--01963 350143 For details of the courses held at Carymoor Contact Jill Gilbert Jill Gilbert@carymoor.org.uk The Yarner Trust Wellcombe Barton Wellcombe, Bideford Devon. EX39 6HF Tel--01288 331692 For details of the courses held at The Yarner Trust contact Sandra Helsby sandra@yarnertrust.org.uk www.yarnertrust.co.uk/ International Workshops in Poland organized by Earth Hands & Houses. Learn to construct with straw bale info@EarthHandsAndHouses.org www.EarthHandsAndHouses.org Mike Wye & Associates Buckland Filleigh Sawmills, Buckland Filleigh, Beaworthy, Devon. EX21 5RN Tel--01409-281644/266 One day Lime workshops held by Mike Wye & Associates who also supply lime products, Natural Paints, oils, waxes, natural decorating products. See entry under suppliers sales@mikewye.co.uk www.mikewye.co.uk I.J.P Building Conservation Hampstead Farm, Binfield Heath, Nr Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. RG9 4LG Tel--0118 969 6949 One day workshops held by IJP Building Conservation who are also suppliers of traditional building materials and Repairers of Historic Buildings. See entry under suppliers info@oldhousestore.co.uk www.oldhousestore.co.uk J&J Sharpe Woodside, Merton, Okehampton, Devon. EX20 3EG Tel--01805 603587 Strawbale building and lime/mud plastering and Cob workshops, One day workshops held by Jan and Jerry Sharpe who run an old buildings restoration company. They also supply lime products.See entry under suppliers mail@jjsharpe.co.uk www.jjsharpe.co.uk