WebLife: Cob Builders Handbook: Contents The Cob Builders Handbook is online – a nice resource to have available. It can also be purchased at Amazon: The Cob Builders Handbook: You Can Hand-Sculpt Your Own Home Another good resource: The Hand-Sculpted House: A Philosophical and Practical Guide to Building a Cob Cottage (The Real Goods Solar […]
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CSA Veggies
This year we’re signing up with the Boistfort Valley Farm CSA to get fresh locally grown vegetables, fruit, & flowers. Obviously with just a small concrete porch and five Earthboxes we can’t hope to do more than supplement our diet a small amount. Until we can get our own property the CSA will give us […]
Sun Ovens
I forgot I wanted to post a picture of one of our Sun Ovens. We picked up two of these on Ebay in great condition and saved quite a lot. So far the clouds and weather haven’t cooperated for us to use them. I did manage to get a picture, though, during a brief sunny […]
To Cob or Not to Cob
Lately we’ve been looking at cob as a possible building strategy. Granted this is more long-term thinking since we don’t have a property yet and won’t for awhile. We’ve been looking at a couple books. The Hand-Sculpted House: A Philosophical and Practical Guide to Building a Cob Cottage is a good one that we both […]