Weekly Workshops
Summer of AirCrete May-October 2026 - Weekly
Make this the year your life changed. In 3-day Events Learn to Make & Build With AirCrete, Poured Earth, Cob, or Wattle & Daub at the Best most complete School Ever! Build a Do-It-Yourself home for as little as $27 per square foot!
This event is FAR more than just how to make AirCrete! This is a contractor level crash course in house building teaching skills that transfer to ANY type of home building. Learn all the skills to build a functional home/tiny-house/large house. Learn enough to be your own contractor and over see having your home built!
Have employees you want to get trained up? Contact us for group discounts.
Benefits of AirCrete
- We will be building a DIY-friendly light weight AirCrete structure and also teaching the basics of this most popular easy to cut/shape and lighter to handle, material making self-builds feel more feasible without big machinery.
- Thermal performance & comfort. Sizable for high insulation values in any climate. Great for solar greenhouses, grow rooms, animal shelters, walk in freezers, processing rooms.
- Fire, flood, mold resistant. More resilient to ever increasing disasters.
- Sustainability vibes. Solarpunk/buildingscience Not emitting toxins into your lungs. Planting just 6 hybrid poplar trees will zero the carbon footprint of cement production and transport. All for a home that last generations.
- Design freedom / niche applications. Makers enjoy sculptable forms (domes, curves) and mixed-materials.
- Something to build with your own hands and teach your children. Moving or life changes? No problem, with these skill you can easily affordably build another.
- Most Affordable Building Method. Building with stabilized dirt is barely cheaper, but does not insulate or work in every climate.
- Available now. Material can be bought and delivered to the point of use and you can start building now.
- Easier. Light weight AirCrete is easy to lift and pour. Earthen building requires excavation, mixing and placing thousands and thousands of pounds of earth. Take 20 pounds 2 1/3 gallons of water and lift it from feet to head 1200 times. This is the work it will take to build 1 small house/room and that's before you have to dig it up and mix in sand clay or cement to stabilize it.
Workshop & Course Topics
- Material Safety Engineering & Non Cracking AirCrete
- Sizing Air-conditioning & Heating & Ventilation
- Solar System Design for off-grid and sustainable building
- Be Your Own general Contractor Basics
- Fast Building with Slip form Casting
- Electric
- Plumbing
- Compost Flush Toilets
- Sizing & Installing Mini-Split Heating and Air-Conditioning
- Reducing Property Tax, Trust & Asset Protection Basics
- How to design and build with AirCrete
- Alternative Earthen Materials, combinations and appropriate applications to achieve actual comfort in any climate. We will cover how to design and building with Cob, Cast Earth, Wattle & Daub, and conventional lumber
Avoid These Common Do-It-Your-Self Builder Pain-Points
- Costly mistakes. Learn to avoid the biggest & common mistakes.
- Budget creep & contingency gaps. First-timers underestimate costs, change orders, and “death by a thousand cuts,” with many advising a 15–20% contingency.
- Scheduling & subcontractor coordination. One missed trade or no-show can cascade into delays and rework; even experienced DIYers warn “it only takes one sub” to double timelines.
- Permitting, code, and inspection confusion. People get tripped up on what’s actually required (e.g., housewrap behind masonry veneer), and learn the hard way that “built to code” is the legal minimum, not a quality bar. Reddit+1
- Sequencing the work. New owner-builders often aren’t sure of trade order (plumbing vs. electrical vs. mechanical, etc.), causing redo’s and failed inspections. Reddit
- Design oversights. Inadequate outlet/lighting planning and flow/layout mistakes show up once you live in it; folks advise walking daily routines before locking plans. Reddit
- Plans that don’t match site/means & methods. Architects “draw anything,” but feasibility on your lot and with your crew is another matter. Reddit
- Quality control & rework. Tolerance mismatches, material variability, and install errors (from DIY or subs) create expensive do-overs. Reddit+1
- Material logistics, storage & theft. Veteran builders recommend on-site secure storage (e.g., a container) to prevent loss and chaos. Reddit
- Settling & post-build fixes. Expect cracking and a punch-list after the house “moves”; plan on touch-ups months later. Reddit
- Finding trustworthy pros (or mentors). Many feel “in over my head” and say pros won’t teach; vetting a GC or adviser is critical even if you self-manage. Reddit+1
- Stress, disputes, and relationship strain. Projects can become emotionally brutal—delays, cost overruns, and conflict (occasionally escalating to lawyers
Get unstuck in your life and start living it on your time & terms by getting rid of the never ending rent or mortgage payments. Retire to the country in an affordable manageable sized home. Rebuild your life in a beautiful new way. Use that extra money & time to build the life you want. Retire as soon as possible, make the big J-O-B optional, recover from life disaster (including divorce), buy nicer things, take that trip you always wanted to, live off grid, be free, be independent, learn new skills, meet amazing people, build a community, help people in other countries, and more. By getting these skills you will be empowered to live life on your terms!
A lot of people say you can't be free or are waiting for a savior or even worse, still expecting government to get it right and come save them. You cant just sit around expecting things to get better. OR You have to make your life better now. Exit the Babylon system and Build both homes and strategies that set you free now!
This is not "escapism," "retreatism," or even "defeatism." Politics or protesting, and fighting the system do NOTHING meaningful.
Those who want real change choose to BE the change they wish to see. Engaging in building their lives by doing the HARD WORK of making freedom happen - right now, in our lifetimes.
We’re not abdicating our responsibilities to crooked politicians.
We’re taking responsibility for our own lives, our own liberties, and our own future.
And we’re staying focused on our mission of achieving lasting liberty for generations by building freedom from the ground up (literally, in the form of intentional communities).
That’s what the Tiny Giant Lifestyle is all about.
See, most people are in a reactive mindset. They’re rocked back and forth by the waves of "what’s happening now." Russia, China, Ukraine, Tragedy, Fake news, cooties-19, idiocy… Political Blunders… And around and around they go, spinning on the never-ending carousel of the 24-hour news cycle intentionally designed to manipulate your emotions, confuse your mind, and keep you trapped on the ride without ever making any progress toward your goals or liberty.
The way out of this mess is through being PROACTIVE.
Be the captain of your own ship to cut a straight course through the noisy waves of nonessential news to your destination. Block out the winds of blustering idiots nattering on about the latest gossip or scandal.
Stay on the path of freedom!
And put all of your energy and focus into building your way out of the corrupt system and into a system of liberty, peace, and voluntary cooperation.
That’s what we’re doing over here building Paid for homes, eliminating debt, growing food and building alternative economies with people like us who love to live free.
We’re not waiting for someone else to give us anything.
We’re out here experimenting and trying new things, new systems, new ways of organizing human society.
It all begins with the Terlingua School of Alternative Building
Starting at age 25 I built my first home and started living an extreme retirement lifestyle.
My monthly cost of living for a family of 4 is $1200 and that can be made doing almost anything. This works because there is NO HOUSING EXPENSE!
The majority of Americans do nothing more in life than pay 3 or more times a house value over 30 years and buy a car with a few nice toys to feel better. Day after day they force themselves up to a job to make payments. They cant pursue their dreams, travel, or seek adventure. If they show up late they are treated like a child and taking extra days off to enjoy life could cost them their home, car, spouse. Living under a threat like this is hardly freedom.
The biggest tragedy is when natural and not-so-natural disasters strike is the loss of decades of life's time gone in a flood, a fire, and hurricane. When you build your own house you are not at the mercy of corrupt banks in insurance to recover your loss. You can always rebuild. For the money saved you can build again. Often for one to three years wages.
The new normal, at this time when the world you knew is being taken over and changed as is always the case through history for older nations. A reordering of the world must take place. This new normal is deception, masked censorship, and uncertain financial futures as corporations and government work together to take everything to pay the irresponsible nations creditors. Nothing is more empowering freeing and certain than the ability to live debt and rent free in an insulating nontoxic AirCrete home built with your own hands.
The Great Stupid Reset, while the world bankers are planning own and control everything including you while charging you for every function of life. The best way to win their game is not play! Between food shortages, limited credit, private business losses as well as job losses, AI replacing workers, and a society being forcefully restructured, there stands a real possibility of another great depression. Sounds bad, but there is also opportunity. Learn to play the game. Control your property and Own nothing. Place your property into a trust or unincorporated nonprofit association. Reduce or eliminate taxes and secure the property and house as well as your future generations so its use can not be taken from you. The house you build forms a solid foundation from which to live a great life and find the best opportunities. Exit and Build!
There truly is nothing, and I do mean NOTHING, that can set you on a better path in life than building your own home and living rent/mortgage free! Do you love your job and life & pop out of bed excited for the day? Was it your idea to live this way? What would you do tomorrow, or right now for that matter, if you could do anything you wanted and there was no fall out or boss to answer to? Where would you be? What would you be doing? Who would you do it with? Just take the time and imagine that for a moment.. Go ahead!
Other workshops do not teach. They may charge $1200 for camp fire songs, yoga, chanting, oh and AirCrete. They build on an aircrete foundation without a footing below the frost line and that structure will surely crack. They will charge extra for a place to put your tent and still more money for food. All without anything that makes a modern home pleasurable. You know, things like a toilet, bath, plumbing in general, electricity, heating, cooling, inside walls ect.. The helpers themselves do not understand safety or construction. They are just parroting back "mix some foam with Portland" like this. They can not teach the understanding that allows you to safely engineer and build your own home and know for sure it will function in their climate efficiently. A home is NOT a tropical third world shell! Its much more than that. Its your well being, safety, warmth, cool, security, appliances, and the systems that support comfortable life. Its a place to nurture your body, mind and spirit.
Our Workshops Goal is to Teach You Every Skill You Need to Know to Make Your Functional Home
- Build a Foam Generator (if you bring the parts)
- Design & Engineer AirCrete so that it is safe and heats/cools in your climate
- Heat load Calculation & Installing Your Air Conditioner/Heater
- Basic Electric House Wiring
- Wire/Breaker Sizing
- Appropriate Wires Sizing for Loads
- Solar Electric System Design
- How to Locate & Install Solar Panels
- Build Lithium Battery Packs to Save Money
- Worm Composting Flush Toilet
- Legally Lower Property Tax, Trust and Asset Protection
- AirCrete, Poured Earth, Cob, Wattle A Daub. Choose One and experience How to use and make energy efficient homes by appropriate design and combination of technologies.
- How to Harvest and Use Rain Water and know how much you need and how much you can collect in your climate
Tornado Resistant Round Structures, Rat/Pest, Flood-Rot Proof, Fire-Resistant, Sound Resistant, Energy Efficient in any climate, Affordable, Expandable, Energy Efficient, Low-Toxicity
Who Can Benefit From Taking one of our Programs?
- Anyone Wanting to sell their home in town and retire off-grid or live in a more manageable size house with the feeling of accomplishment of living in something you made with your own hands
- Anyone Recovering from limited finances
- Anyone with limited skills wishing to expand what is possible
- Anyone Wanting the Best Possible Alternative Construction Method; Comfort In Any Climate
- Anyone Who is Financially Limited & Wants the Greatest Return for Time & Money Invested
- Anyone who see the failure of society/culture and wants a free better choice of lifestyle
- Anyone Who Wants to Build Their Own Home & is Ready For Something Outside The Box
- Anyone wanting practical and complete systems for living Off-Grid
- Anyone Who is Recovering from Personal or Natural Disaster and in Need of a Home: fire, flood, divorce, job loss
- Anyone wanting Independence and security from pandemics and craziness that can happen during times of social stress in the cities
- Anyone Wanting an Beautiful Home: Dome, Cylinder, Arch, Normal Rectangle
- Anyone Doubting or Not Sure they Can Start and Finish Building a Home
- Anyone Needing Experience & Support to Learn an Entirely New Skill
- Anyone With Doubts about AirCrete
- Anyone Wanting to Live Rent & Mortgage Free
- Anyone Wanting to make the 9 to 5 J-O-B rat-race Optional
- Anyone Wanting to Live on the Land or Homestead
- Anyone Wanting a Vacation house, shelter, or Bug-out Location
- Anyone Wanting to Live Off Grid
- Anyone Wanting a Superior home that is Toxin Free
- Anyone Who is Afraid of Mistakes and Doesn't Believe in their Abilities
- Builders Who Want to Experience a New Building Method
- Anyone Wanting to build comfortable homes for others overseas with materials that are available world wide
- Anyone Tired of the fake plandemics and want away from the "craziness" of zombie cities and en-forcement of tyrants individual and corporate.
- Anyone Tired of Go[d]vernment controlling their life and ready to escape the city to a free off-grid lifestyle
If You Can Lift 20 Pounds, climb a ladder, and learn then you can build with AirCrete. Even if that means learning the process and hiring labor to do it for you. A starter tiny-house can be paid for by a minimum wager earner in as little as 5 weeks and assembled in 2 weeks. A 16 year old boy and a 76 year old man have both built their own tiny house after attending an AirCrete workshop!
Skill Level To Attend a Workshop? Anyone!
Come Join us in Beautiful Terlingua Texas near the Big Bend National & State parks. Build new friendships, Skills, and experience the adventure of building an AirCrete Structure from the Ground up to ready to move in!
Know that you know you can do it because you have done it!
Take a tour of the past AirCrete Tiny House Building Projects & This years New Project !
2019 Project: 201 Square Foot AirCrete Off-Grid Tiny House
April Event Project 170 SqFt
2020 Project: A Double Shower and Toilet Tiny/Micro AirCrete House
Pueblo Style AirCrete Rooms
Learn Hands on How Your Are Going to Completely Finish Your Beautiful New Affordable Home for $36+ Per Square Foot!
Time Is flying, dont miss this years ONLY live hands on event! Waiting to the last minuet is almost a guarentee that the
calss willl be full!
2026
3 Days Focus on You
Learning The Topic You Need Most
Includes AirCrete Rooms to stay at the event!
Agenda by the day(though schedule may vary):
A three day value packed program.
- Start of Event. Starting 9:00 AM: Orientation, Meet & Greet. Choosing the best building system for you: AirCrete, lumber, wattle & daub, cast earth, poured earth, geo-polymer DIY rock, or COB.
- Molds, Formulas, and Design & Engineering with your choose material safely.
- Make & Build a section of wall using your chosen material
- Each Evening Training Sessions choose one topic daily: solar design, water catchment, sewer/composting, passive solar design, heating/cooling sizing and install, smallest nutritionally complete gardening, permaculture, modular design, roof truss building for roofs, foundations, creative code approval or bypassing, legal structures for business and life, OR Building a foam machine (Bring your own parts).
- Build the Bond Beam and Apply the Fabric Finish.
- Q&A
Nights: You are welcome to Hanging Out, Make New Friends & network with amazing people, Take a Soak in the national park Hot Springs, Karaoke on Thursdays or just rest for the next day.
Additional training days available.
This Years Projects:
A modular wall sections for a 18x30 game room.
$654 Per Person To Attend This Awesome Extensive Training Experience FAR beyond anything offered by ANY other organization
(pets welcome if well behaved and friendly to other animals).
Limited Attendance: Maximum rooms available 3. Max number of people per room 2.
Discount for Crypto & Liberty Dollar Payments
Testimonials
Knowing something.. but doing something are two different things. I really learned a lot at the workshop. This was the most comprehensive course out there
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I'm In the middle of a life changing event and I want to live within my means. I want to escape the oppressive State I live in. So I though of different ways to get off grid. AirCrete seems to be the most reasonable amount of work vs the amount of reward you get. AirCrete is not as easy as I thought, but its not difficult. Doing by your self is possible, but having two hands would make the work much more reasonable. Once I can leave California I plan to move to a freedom loving state to buy some land and be the first student to complete his AirCrete house. Knowing something, but doing something are two different things. I really learned a lot at the workshop. This was the most comprehensive course out there. Doing everything in one: electric, plumbing, solar, and everything. It was a great value for the money. For anyone listening. If & when you come to one of these workshops.. Its a learning working experience. You NEED to be ready to get your hands dirty. Get in the middle of the mix. If you feel like you are being left out give a polite elbow, jump in a get involved.
Ken// Navy, Retired
We have learned so much. We cant wait to start our project and you should do it too
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Great 2 weeks! Learned a lot about what to do and what not to do. How to keep a focused head. Meet a lot of great people. Got to build my first house . I look forward to doing this in the near future
Doctors Charlene & Ron // Doctor & Naturopathic Dr
I feel very confident that I can now make quality AirCrete by replicating what I was shown here. I am very pleased with the workshop
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I came out to do the AirCrete workshop with Mr Daniel. I stumbled across this on YouTube. It very much appealed to the self reliance. Having met him it has only reinforced that. He is a wizard when comes to construction and he's got a heart of gold.
It was fun to me. We experimented with the mixing process and found out its probably best to not over whip it because it takes more time and its probably more dense than you are aiming for. There is a window in AirCrete. Its fairly forgiving material. Had a great time playing around with it. The unplanned lessons were good. We adjusted and fixed problems and moved on. Even with excessive handling of a batch of AirCrete it was quite resilient. I had a nice feel on my bear feet. A little spongy. I feel very confident that I can now make quality AirCrete by replicating what I was shown here. Also, I know that I can contact Mr Daniel and he will help me through a tough spot. I am very pleased with the workshop.
If you are considering doing this your future self will thank you. It was very well worth my time money & energy I put into this. I feel very confident I will have an AirCrete cabin.
Charles // Fire Fighter
Learned a lot about what to do and what not to do....
Great 2 weeks! Learned a lot about what to do and what not to do. How to keep a focused head. Meet a lot of great people. Got to build my first house . I look forward to doing this in the near future.
Mike // Oil Field & Repo Specialist
Video Testomonials
LOCATION & TRAVEL
Terlingua Texas is located about 4 1/2 hour from El Paso & about 3 1/2 hours from Midland Odessa Airports and 1 hour south of Alpine Texas. There is also Amtrak service to Alpine Texas which is 80 miles from the site. We can pick you up from the bus station or Amtrak if you arrive at-least one day in advance of the workshop and leave a day after the event.
Contact info, Map & details of event location provided after checkout.
After Checkout You Will Be Sent to a Page With Specific Location and Directions! Bookmark it!
LODGING
You will be staying on-site in AirCrete Rooms. The Raven Room with a Queen Sized Bed and the Nippon Room with a Double Sized Bed. We also have a rustic lumber frame cabin available with one double and one queen bed.
FOOD
Bring everything you need! There is a grocery store 38 miles away. There is a restaurant at the ranch lodge 6 miles away, and the longhorn motel 13 miles away, as well as in the ghost town 40+ miles away. Ice is available at ranch office 6 miles away,
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