Howdy folks! I'm very interested in doing a 3 - 6 month (or longer!) earth-based building apprenticeship / internship in the near future and would love some advice. Obviously the lower the cost the better, as I'm on a small budget.

I've been thinking about the following two earth-based building schools, partly because I've heard good things about both, and partly because I'm intrigued about the unique intentional community settings ... does anybody have direct experience with either of these projects? Or does anybody have recommendations about other programs that I may want to look into?

Arcosanti < www.arcosanti.org/ >

Auroville Earth Institute < www.earth-auroville.com/ >

Thanks in advance for any thoughts and collective wisdom about all of this!