EarthHome Living
Design School
EarthHome
Living Design
School
Meaning ;
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Homes that nestle
into the earth
The shapes we inhabit
& live within
A place of learning,
of
🏡 & 🌎
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🌱 🌿 🌀
Belonging to the earth,
Earth as our home
as a culture,
as a humankind
community
connection
& growth
We Are
a nonprofit organization based on the front range of Colorado.
We design, teach, and model
living environments
that allow life to thrive
for the generations of tomorrow
Our Mission
We are dedicated to the design and modeling of environment-integrating, sustainable, affordable, and wonder-inspiring homes
We teach the skills of building through educational sessions,
Providing housing to those in our community whose lives it will support to flourish-
– From young mothers and new families, to our elders, to those with special and diverse needs, veterans, and more. Though these ways of living are designed as solutions for all humankind– ways of living that can become the norm – widely accessible for the generations behind our own – and anyone and everyone are welcome to join in the fruits of this programming
We are creating land based campuses of living and learning
Places that model architecture and way of living which nestles into its ecology;
in environments from plains, to desert, to mountain, forest, and sea ~
Places to learn, places to be.
Learn with us, build with us, contribute to our models
Collaborate
Learn –
Are you interested in learning the skills of building, or to build your own home? Join our educational build sessions!
Teach –
Join our team of teachers! Share your building experience with apprentice homebuilders
Volunteer –
Join us on the ground for community build days!
Donate Materials –
Contribute materials, as an allied organization or individual, to our home builds!
Funding –
Contribute tax deductible funding to our projects!
Land –
Do you have land that you love, that you would be interested in sharing with or trusting to this mission? We would love to meet you!
Prototype Home Build
We are currently building our first earthship-inspired tiny home prototype.
This home will be self sustaining in regards to water, power, and septic ; not needing to plug in to the grid.
It utilizes systems of water catchment and thoughtful recirculation, solar energy systems, thermal heating and cooling, passive solar and earthship informed design.
It is designed for wonder, beauty, and to be a functional living and workspace.
This 4002 ft home is set for completion in 2026.
Systems & Design
We are designing and researching systems of living that are self sustaining (off grid capable), and integrate into our environments
Architecture which utilizes
- Systems of Water Catchment and thoughtful reuse
- Earthship and passive solar informed design
- Thermal heating and cooling
- Natural materials
- Partners with the materials, ecology and systems around it
To partner our human life symbiotically with the already existing systems in our environment;
That provide shelter, water, warmth, food, home
In ways of natural provision and mutual reciprocity – when we work with them
Educational Build Sessions!
Upcoming Build Sessions
2026
Aug
Sep
Oct
roofing
windows
siding
plumbing
and electric
rough in
interior finishes
Course dates to be announced soon –
Which steps are you interested in learning? We’d love to hear from you!
We will offer multi-day course sessions as well as single day community volunteer days.
If you are curious to absorb a session of learning, the course is a good option for you, if you want to dip your toes in and get your hands involved, a volunteer day is a great place to start!
Join our newsletter to be notified when courses and volunteer days are announced!
Our Course Model Allows ;
🛠️ Student built housing – allows homes to be given at low or no cost to those in need
🌿 Tuition free learning – funding is resourced through grant funding & charitable contributions, so that this learning is accessible to all who are interested in immersing in these skills and contributing their hearts and hands to this vision.
Become a charitable sponsor of this work to support the tuition of students, and the homes that are given forward!
Fundraising to Create Maine Campus
We are launching a fundraising initiative to carry on our founder’s Grandparents land upon an island in Maine.
Our vision is to carry on this land as a campus, where we may give the vibrancy of this land forward to the wellbeing of the community and the seacoast ecosystem.
Here, we envision offering programming including ;
• Teaching homebuilding workshops & modeling living designs which integrate into the seacoast ecosystem
• Ecological education & preservation
• Native species stewardship, landscape design which revitalizes native sea coast life webs
• A place to host and learn from the indigenous communities of the seacoast region, a place of indigenous community connection, of gathering as community with our neighbors of all backgrounds
• Learning indigenous lifeways and stewardship of native ecological systems, learning fluency in the indigenous ecosystems and networks of life here on the seacoast,
• providing community connection and a place of beauty
• Fostering a Montessori based nature school for children
• Hosting new mothers and families to live and parent with community
• Intergenerational living, support of the elderly, resourcing end of life stewardship as well as birth work, and beginning of life care
• Community connection and care for those with diverse needs and special abilities
• An artist retreat and workplace for developing bodies of music, writing, art, film, and more.
• A place just to be, and of access to nature,
• A place for work of meaning, belonging, community, and relearning the languages of earth
• A place for developing work of meaning, a place to feel belonging, to create community, and relearn the languages of earth.
Vision – Growth
2026
1-3 year
5-10 year
Complete prototype tiny home
Inform and refine design and curriculum
Expand team of teachers,
Create alliances with material companies, and funding allies
Lay the structures for ongoing programming.
Launch storytelling and fundraising for carrying on Maine land as campus
Obtain land to create own campus/es; land based places of land based living and learning.
Continue leading courses, building homes for community members in need, and modeling environment integrated neighborhoods
Create networks of land based living places that reflect the diversity of earths bioregions, from ocean, to forest, to desert, to mountain
Places of living and learning that reintegrate humans with environment
Values – Guiding Inquiries
What does human inhabitance look like when nestled into it’s ecosystem, rather than separated from it?
How can we bridge from shapes we inhibit that will not sustain life
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To ones that allow all life to thrive?
How can we design systems – patterns – ways of living as human beings that will re-introduce us to our earth and landscape, to re-learn the languages of our ecosystems?
How do we walk the path of re-indigenizing as human beings of planet earth?
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The walk of re-indigenizing
Indigenous ; sprung from the earth
We recognize, honor, and respect that here on the front range of Colorado, we are given life upon the ancestral homelands long stewarded and loved well by the Ute, Cheyenne, Arapahoe, and Lakota people, and served as a gathering place of many tribes.
Our Maine homelands are the indigenous and ancestral homelands of the Pennacook and Abanaki, who were part of the Wabanaki Confederation, including the Maliseet, Mi’kmaq, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot nations. ‘The children of the dawnland – People of the First Light.’
To these lands and to one another, we seek relationship and belonging.
We seek to humbly learn from and contribute to the legacy and lifeways of these indigenous ambassadors of this place we’ve known as home, as we learn its languages, love it, and learn to care for it well.
We seek to honor, support the thriving lives of, partner with, and humbly learn from these communities.
We seek to support the preservation and thriving continuation of the invaluable lifeways of the keepers of this land.
We seek to share these lands as learning places where first nations communities may teach and share their invaluable knowledge within our communities. We seek to share this land with its community, with youth, and believe that by learning fluency and relationship with it, we are allowing a future world where all life can thrive and be respected, treasured, as the web which gives life.
We seek to together, acknowledge the harm that has occurred, sing over the bones of our collective ache, hold high the remnants of remembrance that are held sacred and can yet be passed on, and weave join together in resiliency for the wellbeing of our one anothers lives today and yet to come.
in respect, acknowledgement, healing, and reparation of the true life experience that has occurred for the lineages of our community members, and hold space for the invaluable learning that can come from listening, and holding one another through this walk ‘home.’
We seek to allow our humankind, of all backgrounds, as we find ourselves here together now ~ most of us having been separated from cultural rooting and our original indigenous origins ~
To reunite with a lived experience of belonging; to the earth, to land, to community, to ourselves and one another.
We seek to walk the life’s work of re-indigenization, as humankind of planet earth. to our earth, to ourselves, and one another.
We seek to create places where ALL can feel a sense of belonging. Where many stories and lived experiences come together to become kin. Where all are welcome. Where we can all learn from our vast and diverse, wondrously unique lived stories, skills and gifts, and too, feel the universality that moves within us all.
Here, we are related, we are connected, and our wealth comes from the expanse of our human to human relationships.
If you are of indigenous community, we would love to partner with you. , to empower indigenous experience, lifeways, storytelling, ceremony, and knowledge.
If you are a part of communities who would be enriched by experiences such as these, building the dreams and more beautiful world we know is possible, time on the land, and in community- we would love to work together to harbor meaningful experiences.
Thank you to this earth and its keepers- of hundred of thousands of years, for stewarding this world and land of immense, and precious beauty. We honor you and respect the experience you have lived intergenerationally fully, in these centuries that have turned away from indigenous birthright as humanity’s way of being. Let us turn these soils again to ones that give belonging, life, and familial care for the land that gives us life.
May we learn from our indigenous relatives. May we learn from our community around us and those whom we share this home with, who have traveled every walk of life. May we learn from the land itself. May we inhabit our curiosity, and lead with our open heart. May we follow that which brings us most alive, and learn ever more from and the love and beauty, from the depth, breadth, and growth, in this universal mystery of the experience of life.
Thank you for all you are.
Together ; for a common dream, and a world that thrives
May we be and become kin; friends and family and relatives to one another, working together for a common dream, together on this wondrous earth we know as home.
May we turn these soils together,
and may we sow them with seeds of life, of hope, and of communion, in continuous dedication to love and beauty and goodness that is and will be
Earth is Ready to Welcome Us Home
Newsletter
Thank you to our amazing contributors, community, and allied organizations and individuals who make this possible!
& Thank You!
