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Affordable housing is hard to find.  The Crooked Forest Institute, a local 501(c)3, is focused on becoming a Community Housing Development Organization in order to build multiple affordable housing neighborhoods on shared-equity land like a Community Land Trust. The Western Institute for Lifelong Learning (WILL) invites you to a Lunch and Learn community education programContinue reading “Join us on July 10th for “Disability-Forward Design and Elder Housing””

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-c8hjs-164e96b Couldn’t make it to the Crooked Forest Workshop at the Tranquil Buzz on Friday, June 21st? Here’s the recording of the Regenerative Rural Resilience: Leveraging Community Power for Economic Transformation workshop so you can take it with you. This workshop focuses on the Economic aspects of the Crooked Forest vision. In this workshop, JoeContinue reading “Regenerative Rural Resilience: Leveraging Community Power for Economic Transformation”

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-kztks-164e77a Join the Co-hosts Susan GoLightly and Renee Provencio of “Gender Trouble,” a program on Gila Mimbres Community Radio, as they interview Holly Noonan and Jade Sawyer of Crooked Forest Institute. Join us as we explore the questions of “What exactly is Environmental Illness?” and  “Why are women disproportionately affected by it?” and “How isContinue reading “Environmental Illness, Women and Housing”

Join us tomorrow at the Tranquil Buzz from 12 to 2pm for our workshop entitled: Regenerative Rural Resilience: Leveraging Community Power for Transformational Change. We’ll be focusing on the economic aspects of our Mission, including prioritizing the Wellbeing Economy , and how we can use the Community Land Trust that we are starting to helpContinue reading “Upcoming Events”

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-z56n5-16369e8 Bob Estrin is an architect, builder, teacher and life long student. In 2020, he founded the School of Constructive Arts (SCA), a laboratory for the experimental study of holistic, healthy, and affordable methods of building and living in dry lands environments. SCA seeks to integrate ancient approaches with modern technology to derive new modelsContinue reading “Bob Estrin Interview– The School of Constructive Arts celebrates both Ancient and Modern Technology”

We hope to see you at the live event this coming Saturday at the Maker’s Market off Bullard Street in downtown Silver City between 9:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. on Saturday May 4th. This extraordinary event will be hosting 65 local nonprofits who are all offering some kind of fun activity for kids and adults.Continue reading “The Give Grandly Live Event is Saturday May 4th”

Did you know you could already volunteer with us? Our Board of Directors needs help on many different projects. For example, we are preparing to participate in Silver City’s Give Grandly event on May 4th, 2023. We need help with set up, our activity for kids (building play-doh houses!) and fundraising. We are hard atContinue reading “Yes, We Need Volunteers”

Crooked Forest Institute is looking for land. This newer non-profit based in Silver City is on a mission to create affordable housing using sustainable, local materials, like compressed earth blocks. The key to affordability, they say, is the vocational education and community building program attached to their housing development plan. “Student and volunteer labor canContinue reading “Crooked Forest Institute is Looking for Land”

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-3gqwv-1597d1f Larry Roybal is a master adobe builder who has built and renovated more than 20 adobe homes in Silver City/Grant County since the early 1970s, when he moved down here from Northern New Mexico. Originally from Corrales, he built his first home there out of “terrones,” a sort of “living adobe brick” used byContinue reading “Larry Roybal — A Master Adobe Builder looks back on a Fascinating Career”

Nora Ureste is a Building Biologist who, together with her husband, Chris, is creating a small retreat center outside of Austin, Texas that can host people who are chemically and environmentally sensitive. The project, called Flourish Here, is working towards completing the first of 6 hempcrete homes and will feature a 5 bedroom retreat house,Continue reading “New Podcast Episode: Hempcrete homes with a Building Biologist”