Haha. A few weeks ago, a woman from PARADE Magazine contacted me about the grain bin renovation here at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage. With my email response, I included a link to this website, and the writer decided to feature GOBCOBATRON instead of the grain bin home.
So now 70 million people have read about me (’Ziggy [...]
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My cob house featured in PARADE Magazine
The Year of Mud expands
The comments I received on my earlier post seemed to be enough to sway me towards combining this website with my kitchen construction blog, so except many (and more frequent) posts about building the bale-cob kitchen here in the future! For the sake of my own sanity and time, this seems to be the best [...]
Question for readers: Combining kitchen building blog with The Year of Mud?
I’ve been pondering a possibility for the past week or so. Last year, I started up a new blog dedicated to my latest building project, a sub-community kitchen here at Dancing Rabbit that I’m working on with a few other folks. However, I’ve been finding it difficult to want to maintain two separate websites, although [...]
Sustainablog and the Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage Blogathon
Just a little (sorta off-topic) newsflash: Sustainablog has teamed up with Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage (my home) to host a blogathon to help raise funds for Dancing Rabbit. Check out the details here!
Check out the sustainablog homepage for new blog posts over the next 24 hours and consider contributing to the cause! You may even see [...]
Making This Soccer Ball Required More Technology Than Building My House
This post might seem a little random, but I stumbled across this video and was floored by how complicated the manufacturing process for this simple soccer ball (sorry, football for the rest of the world) is. The amount of technology, machinery, computers, and undoubtedly, energy going on here is HUGE.
Remember that this is a mere [...]
GOBCOBATRON Snow Model Houses
I got an email from DR friends Tony and Rachel who made this funky little snow mockup of my house. The first GOBCOBATRON snow home! (Note the little snow cob bed, too… or would that be an iqliq in this case?)
My free cable spool table
I had been wanting a table for the cob bench in my house, and I realized that those large cable spools would probably fit in the house, if I could finally find one. Well, I did get one, and it fits perfectly! These cable spools make pretty nifty (and free!) tables if you can find [...]
What to expect from The House That Millet Built
Beginning last year and continuing into this year, I maintained The Year of Mud website to document my first cob building experience. I have received lots of great feedback from readers throughout that continuing process. The documentation process has been very rewarding, and I hope that The Year of Mud continues to be a valuable [...]
Cob stories and photos coming… soon…
I just got back from a three week stint in Oregon and Berkeley, CA. Along the way I went to the Cob Cottage Company and Aprovehco. Expect some photos and writing… soonish. Here’s a photo of Bedrock, a little cabin at the Cob Cottage Company, for now.
