You may remember reading about how I stumbled upon a perfectly sized tractor tire that I decided to use for the frame of my skylight atop my reciprocal roof. Well, I finally installed the actual skylight to the tractor tire frame a couple of weeks ago with the help of my friend Tamar. Read ahead [...]
Building and living in my first cob house
About The Year of Mud
Hullo. I am Brian Liloia, but I am also called Ziggy. I'm a 26-year-old currently living at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage. In April of 2008, I began building my own cob house, and on July 11, 2009, I moved into the finished home. Here I have documented the entire cob building process, and continue to share information about living in an earthen home, and now my latest project, a group kitchen. This is the Year of Mud. The experience continues.