August 2010

Learning to go green through natural building

By Kate Stephenson, Executive Director
Yestermorrow's Natural Building Intensive program was featured on WCAX-TV! Check out the video or read the text of the piece included below.http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=13021240 Middlesex, Vermont - August 23, 2010At the end of a dead end road in Middlesex, nearly a dozen students and instructors from the Yestermorrow Design Build...

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WANTED: Treehouse Project in the Mad River Valley

By Kate Stephenson, Executive Director
Yestermorrow is seeking a few good trees and a client with imagination. We are reaching out to local organizations and individuals interested in hosting a site for a new treehouse. The project will be built during our adult design/build class starting September 4th, use minimally invasive techniques and built with surroundings in mind. Uses...

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Upcoming Unveiling for Yestermorrow/Hubbard Park Community Project

By Kate Stephenson, Executive Director
Construction is underway for Yestermorrow’s collaborative community design/build structure for Hubbard Park, in downtown Montpelier. Working with the Montpelier Parks Commission, eight Yestermorrow students are designing and building a unique moldering toilet structure set to be unveiled Friday, August 13 at 4 PM. The public is welcome to...

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Natural Building Intensive 2010

By Kate Stephenson, Executive Director
This year’s Yestermorrow Natural Building Intensive engages students in a truly innovative project and course of study. Over the past three years we have worked with clients in the Mad River Valley to build a variety of structures—a barn, a garden folly and a music studio. This year’s project takes the program to a whole new level, building...

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Yestermorrow Partners with the Canova Association to Rebuild an Abandoned Village in Italy

By Kate Stephenson, Executive Director
For three weeks in July and August, Yestermorrow has been conducting the first of what is planned to be an annual course in the Ossola Valley of northern Italy. Yestermorrow is collaborating with the Canova Association, an organization dedicated to the appreciation and preservation of vernacular stone architecture in this region of the Alps...

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