Jump onto a live building site for this 4-day structural immersion. You’ll master the fundamentals of round timber framing by working directly on a house already in progress. From understanding structural loads to handling raw timber, you’ll gain the practical confidence to start your own building journey on a real-world project.

Price €385 Includes all meals and free camping: Bring your own campervan or tent and stay on our beautiful off-grid farm at no extra cost.

Trade the classroom for the site in this seamless, hands-on journey. Over seven days, you’ll master the art of building with the earth—from testing subsoil and mixing cob to crafting adobe bricks and slip-straw. You’ll also learn the fundamentals of timber framing and help finish a beautiful earth house.

Price €740 Includes all meals and free camping: Bring your own campervan or tent and stay on our beautiful off-grid farm at no extra cost.

A PDC is an internationally recognised, 72-hour theory course resulting in a Permaculture Design Certificate. It provides an introduction to permaculture design as set forth by movement founders Bill Mollison and David Holmgren.

The PDC serves as a foundation for further permaculture work and study and is a prerequisite for the Diploma in Permaculture Design, offered through The Permaculture Association and Gaia University. A growing number of universities around the world are accepting credits for this PDC. To date, thousands of permaculture designers worldwide have been certified through this course.

Learn natural building in Portugal with a 5-day hands-on workshop led by Lola Byron. Practice earth floors, natural plasters, living roofs and soil testing while helping complete an eco structure. A special price is available thanks to free accommodation. Improve your life with practical skills for sustainable living.

Start your year with a gift to yourself — the gift of learning new, life-changing skills!  Join us for a hands-on, six-day workshop led by Lola Byron, founder of WNBC, and discover the art of building with the earth. 

Come connect with nature, community, and sustainable building practices — and start 2026 by investing in skills that nurture both you and the planet. 

Trade the classroom for the construction site in this 5-day hands-on journey (6–10 May). You’ll step directly into the evolution of a timber round house, mastering the art of building with earth, straw, and wood. From testing local clay to building with cob and adobe, this is your chance to gain real-world confidence on a living project in the heart of the Portuguese cork forests.

Price €505 Includes all organic meals and free camping: Bring your own tent or campervan and wake up on our beautiful off-grid farm at no extra cost.

Get your hands in the earth and help our spring nursery flourish! This 5-day intensive focuses on the "engine room" of the farm: building living soil and mastering the art of plant propagation. We’ve traded the classroom for the fields and nursery, so you’ll learn the "why" and "how" of regenerative design through direct, seasonal action and shared observation.

Price €420 Includes all meals and free camping: Bring your own campervan or tent and stay on our beautiful off-grid farm at no extra cost.

Join us for a hands-on natural building workshop on a beautiful 150-hectare regenerative farm in the heart of Alentejo’s cork oak landscape. Over the course of 8 immersive days, we’ll be building, from the foundations up, a wood-fired, rocket stove, sauna – blending ancient building techniques with functional, modern design.

We are excited to invite you to a 9 day unique natural building workshop, surrounded by rolling hills and cork trees, on a beautiful 150 hectare farm in Southern Portugal. You will gain a deep understanding, and hands on experience, of the theory and practice of natural building, ecological house design and community living in a safe and supported environment.

We are excited to invite you to a 9 day unique natural building workshop, surrounded by rolling hills and cork trees, on a beautiful 150 hectare farm in Southern Portugal. You will gain a deep understanding, and hands on experience, of the theory and practice of natural building, ecological house design and community living in a safe and supported environment.