When designing my cob house, it was a goal to keep building costs very low and to obtain as many building materials as locally as possible, especially natural (of course) and reclaimed supplies. Few materials were purchased new, and about as few are synthetic.
In this very detailed entry, Recipe for Building a Cob House, you [...]
The year I built my first cob house
About The Year of Mud
Hullo. I am Brian, but I am also called Ziggy. I'm a 25-year-old currently living at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage. In April of 2008, I began building my own cob house. Here I shall document the entire cob building process. This is the Year of Mud.
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