Membership Benefits
- Free admission to critical trainings and workshops, including
- Designing with CSEB (starting in April 2023)
- Making Block
- Laying Block with Innolock & Earth Glue, prep.
- Ability to put your own labor into your CSEB block production to lower costs and give satisfaction of building your home from the ground up
- 1 full day of on-site support while you lay the first row of block on your home
- Purchase blocks and other materials at member-only discount prices
- Ability to rent equipment such as mixers for earth glue and hempcrete
- Membership extends to all the helpers you can recruit over 14 years of age
- 5 Year Membership. ($500/year renewal)
Membership “Fine Print”
- Members are asked to contribute 20 volunteer hours of labor each year
- Block production is prioritized for families in the order that they join and pay for materials
- First year membership block production orders are limited to 10,000 blocks until all member requests are met
- Materials must be paid for prior to production
- Responsible for your own personal safety apparel: steel toed shoes, safety goggles, dust masks, gloves, hearing protection, hard hats. (Some of this may be required for block production)
- Membership is $3000 for five years; $100 per year thereafter.
How to Join:
- Fill out the Riverbed Earth Block Membership Agreement
- Email it to riverbedearthblock@gmail.com or delivery to Emily Satterthwaite Lot# 108
Membership agreement fillable PDF – download it to your local PC, fill out and sign electronically with Adobe Reader; or, print out the document, then sign: