2010 YURT CALENDAR:

May 2010

May 22

Buffalo Mountain Yurt Works
in Virginia hosts their first workshop. Starting at 10 am you can visit their shop, hear Stephen explain how they build yurts, and help put up a fabric yurt.
Call 276.733.4592 /4593 for details.

May 22-23

Join Colorado Yurt Company at Earthworks Expo in Denver.

June 2010

June 4-6

Learn how to construct a fabric yurt in the workshop Cloud Houses and Wind Horses: Building an Ultra Simple Yurt with Bruce Sargent, author of "For Love of Yurts: Building an Ultra Simple Yurt Home for Under $1000."
Location: Spirit Hollow in the Taconic Mountains of Vermont. Cost on a sliding scale. Call Spirit Hollow at 802.447.3895 or register online.

June 11

Yurtstravganza in Seattle. Yurt talk by Jenny Pell (founder of Nesting Bird Yurts), slideshow with becky kemery (author of YURTS: Living in the Round), yurt raising with Rainier Yurts, and the release of Yurtprints yurt documentary by Tye Rogerson.
Time & Location: 5-9 pm at Om Culture, 2210 N. Pacific St. For more info call 206.734.2262. Suggested donation $5.

June 11-12

Turkic-style yurt workshop at Yestermorrow Design Build School in Vermont.
Instructors: Dave Cain and Bruce Sargent, cost $300.
More info at www.yestermorrow.org.

June 18-20

Fabric Yurt workshop with Laurel Nest Yurts near Asheville, North Carolina.
Call (877)Eco-Yurt for details or email info@laurelnest.com.

July 2010

July 9-11

Visit the folks from Pacific Yurts and Camping Yurts Co. at the Oregon Country Fair near Eugene, Oregon.

July 10-11

Free yurt workshop and work weekend at Medicine Circle in north Idaho. Put up a real Mongolian yurt and help build a tapered-wall-yurt covered eating area based on Bill Coperthwaite's plans. Camp out, eat yummy food, make music around the campfire and frolic in the forest while building trails, a fire circle and yurts.
Details at www.themedicinecircle.org. RSVP required.
Email medicinecircle@gmail.com or call 208.448.1305.

July 23-24

Visit Camping Yurts at Booth 17, Solar West (SolWest) Festival in John Day, Oregon.

August 2010

Aug 11-16

World Yurt Makers Gathering in Hawaii, open to the public for one day. For more information, visit www.yurtsofHawaii.com.

September 18-19

Visit the Colorado Yurt Company booth at the Sustainable Living Fair in Fort Collins, Colorado.

2011

January

Dates TBA

Yurt Building Workshops with Little Foot Yurts

in Nova Scotia, Canada.

Cost: $250 plus tax includes camping and gourmet vegetarian meals.