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Hi Everyone,
My name is Carol and I am interested in finding work exchange in cob building in the Utah area,SE Idaho area. I know of a company in Moab but would like to find something more north.I am not a spring chicken as they say but I have plenty of energy and a passion for natural building. Please contact me with any kind of educational offers. I have the month of June off so I’m free as a bird to do whatever I want. I have lived on a small farm and have experience with some farm related building and farmhouse projects but no cob experience. I did apprentice as a potter years ago and love to get my hands dirty.
Thanks,
Carol
I live in SC near Greenville and would love to learn more about cob building in a hands on way. If anyone knows about workshops, work parties, or cob houses being built in the area I would love to hear about it! I am in school for building and construction to get my builder’s license and this is what I would like to do with it.
Thanks, Kelly
Hi Kelly,
You should send me your email so we can talk directly.
melissa@hiddenmoonfarm.com
Hi! We’re looking for someone to come & teach us how to build houses with cob. We’ve taken a big step as a family, deciding to get off the grid by creating an Eco-Village and training facility here in Lusaka Zambia, where we can stay organic, live closer as a family, and join the greater community, helping them to attain self sustainability and at the same time have fun. Please get in touch if you’re interested!
Motivated aspiring natural builder looking to gain experience in cob, light straw clay, roundpole timberframe, bale cob, plasters, masonry or rocket stoves, earthen floors, etc. Have taken workshops covering these topics and want to put the new skills to work. Work trade would be fantastic.
Located in Portland but can potentially travel. Right now scheduling for all 2010! solbuilder @ gmail.com
Oops! my e-mail is reddingryan @ hotmail.com
thanks!
Hey there folks… I live near Chico, CA on a very young, small, farm emphasizing in permaculture forest gardening. I currently live in a tee-pee, have a barn and small workshop space. The land resembled a landfill when I arrived five years ago and has transformed amazingly. I now have around 100 young fruit and nut trees of all different varieties. Surrounded by huge, majestic valley and live oaks… the land is situated very close to the Sacramento River and on top of an old creek bed… lots of round river rocks to build with! I live quite minimally only using electricity for a small freezer. I really need someone who knows about cob, masonry, earthbags, or wood milling to help teach me how to create some pertinent infrastructure. I’d like to start small – a rocket stove for cooking, baking, heating water and staying warm would be a great start. I have no desire or ability to pay anyone $ for knowledge or help but I am definitely willing to work trade or work something out. I have a few ideas about the stove plans and a few ideas about a small structure… nothing set in stone. Anyway… if you can help in any way let me know. I am willing to travel and am quite flexible. Cheers!
I live in Shropshire and would like to know if anybody in the area requires a hand with cob construction. I’m an architect student and have an interest in this sustainable way of building and would like to get stuck in and learn how to do it myself.
Thanks, Hannah
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Hi, I live in Central Florida and have been interested in assisting on a cob project to begin learning about it and to get some basic experience. Now that I have a family I’m interested in finding out whether we would be able to build a cob home on the lot attached to my mother’s property. I don’t have experience but I am eager to learn and to get my hands dirty!
Hi Christy,
My husband and I are building a cob cottage in VA and are looking for people to come and help us during the summer. It would be a good learning experience for you and you do not have to commit a lot of time, though the more time you commit the more you will learn. You can email me at melissa @ hiddenmoonfarm.com if you want to learn more.
I am interested in helping with a cob or earthbag home building project, I have some building trade skills also interested in sharing in land purchase to bring cost and get on with building my own cottage. I am in central NY but will consider all options, want to be off grid
Have some cobbing experience and am planning to build my own. Would love to contribute my free labor to your cob building around San Francisco / N. California. I’ve also facilitated many personal growth workshops and would be happy to throw in spritually uplifting and growth-promoting group work using the building process as a metaphor to help people explore their lives.
Hi all,
I’m desperately looking for a natural building work-exchange opportunity in BC (ideally Van. Island area) any time from January 2010 onward.
If you know of any, please get in touch!
Thank you.
awp87 (at) hotmail.co.uk
I love and support the idea of cob houses and am willing to work with anyone in the area free of charge with their cob projects.
I live in Portland, Oregon and am not willing to travel far unless its somewhere on the Oregon Coast.
Thank you
Looking to exchange work (or pay tuition) to get hands on experience with Cob building.
North America please, no funds for long distance travel.
Hello all. This winter in Wimberley Texas I am going to be having multiple little weekend workshops on building basic garden additions with cob. The projects include a bench, a oven or two, a kiva fireplace built into a wall with a rocket stove bench, and many more. We are even going to construct a little cob cold box for a winter time “off-grid” fridge. All meals will be included as will camping. I will have more info for everyone later. Let me know if your interested. Email me at EarthenAdditions @ yahoo.com
“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”
- Thoreau
Looking for work exchange in the Pacific Northwest (anywhere from BC to Bay Area, CA). I am very interested in natural building and would like to get some experience. I will be travelling through the region starting in January 2010 and would be happy to help on any project.
Hi
I’m looking for cob work exchange during the week ends in Ireland. I’m based in Dublin but the island aint big and I like to travel
cheers
Roby
Looking for expert to host natural plastering workparty ~ Seattle area.
We have an already-built 2-story strawbale barn/workshop/upstairs living quarters that we’d be looking to plaster and do natural paints – the interior only. Exterior already plastered with concrete (ick).
We live on a 20 acre land trust with a small intentional community, Walker Creek Community.
We’d love to host a plastering workshop in 2010; Mt Vernon is an easy 1 hour drive north of Seattle – good for B.C. folks too… We’d be thrilled to host, work on our project, learn natural plastering, connect to our larger community…
Look forward to hearing from you!
Sarah,
Lucy and I are 2 architects that have been living on Lopez Island for the past 4 months working on a strawbale, net-zero energy, affordable housing neighborhood that has been developed by the Lopez Community Land Trust (lopezclt.org). During our time there we have worked along side very experienced craftspeople and accumulated extensive experience with natural construction techniques: earth and lime plasters, cob and straw bale construction. We plan on installing an earthen floor in the near future and are continuously seeking out similar projects (both design and construction). We would like to be in touch with you regarding what you had in mind for your project and to see what’s going on in Mt. Vernon.
We look forward to hearing from you,
Nitsan + Lucy
Sarah,
My husband and I have 5 acres in Gold Bar and are just getting started with our Cob learning and ideas but we would be interested in helping if you need hands.
Cobity workparty, Free bring food;
http://cobworkshops.org/cobity-workparty/
We are in western Connecticut and are interested in any local experts in cob building. We will be building a cob house on land we plan to purchase in the next few months. We want to be completely self-sustainable and off the grid. Is there anyone out there that can help us? We are willing to pay reasonable fees for true experts and for additional hands once we get moving forward. The final location will likely not be in Connecticut, so you may need to travel.
I’ve been fascinated with cob/bale and other alternative building materials for several years now, but am dismayed in that there don’t seem to be any workshops in my area. Would love to hear from anyone in the southern central Pennsylvania area who has a work party or workshop information to share. Interested in home, ovens, garden walls, fences, or any other project you may have. Please email me at lizzietish726 @ gmail.com . Thanks!
Free workshop with Carole Crews: Plastering and Alis. July 27, 29, 31, 2009
Lama Foundation, San Cristobal, NM
http://carolecrews.com/contact/
Would love to participate in a work exchange with cob building! I’m currently interning on a medicinal herb farm in southern Oregon, the program ends late August and I’ll be looking for an opportunity at that time. Please email me at sylvielevy @ gmail.com. Hawaii is my main place of interest, but if there’s a great opportunity, I’ll be willing to go anywhere!
I am from Edmonton Alberta and would like to gain some experience with cob. I have no building experience with cob or otherwise. If someone is willing to teach me or just needs some assistance with a project, please contact me.
Only recently have i caught onto cob construction. I have no previous experience, but am eager to help out on any cob builds in the greater Sacramento, CA area.
-Thanks
Looking to learn cob or straw bale. Maybe build a workshop (mini house) as a trail run in my back yard.
I live in Mocksville, North Carolina and could use help getting building codes approved and anyone who might want to work and learn together.
I live in Spartanburg, SC and am very interested in some hands on experience. I just discovered cob building and I am thinking about learning it as a trade. Please email me and let me know if I can help with some labor.
Recently a friend’s house burned to the ground. She is a widow with one son who just returned from Iraq a few days after the fire, and a 14 year old son. She is disabled with all sorts of joint and muscle problems. I have always been interested in alternative building techniques, having lived in two adobe houses years ago in New Mexico. This lady owns about 5 acres here in rural Arkansas and needs a new house. I have talked with her some about cob and she is interested. We could probably round up a pretty good labor pool but I’m a little nervous about taking on this project without someone who’s done it already. Is there anyone out there anywhere near North Central Arkansas who would tackle this?
i can help just liet me know where it is bryan36b @ msn.com and if anyone want to go i have a ride we can meet some where and carpool
bryan
I live in Tucson and am interested in learning how to make an oven. work parties? workshops? Thanks
For lack of a better website, that is what I must provide http://myspace.com/mejinak. I want to learn to make cob houses and would love to help you with your project if I can reach it! I’m currently without a vehicle but have access to Orangevale, Folsom, Citrus Heights, and many surrounding areas including Sacramento. I’d love to help! Please contact me.
Hello,
My name is Dana and I am traveling with my friend Carole. We met at a Cob Workshop in Julian, CA and have been friends ever since. We are currently in Sedona…….and planning our next move.
We would like to help you with your project.
We are traveling in an RV. Plan to make
our way around the country working on
Cob.
Please give us a call @ 951-897-9448
or by email @ danamarker @ hotmail.com
Hope to hear from you soon.
Tired of paying tuition fees to build someone else’s home? If you’re moderately fit, want to learn how to build with cob, cob-wood, and bale-cob, and don’t want to spend money doing it, let us know. We are always looking for enthusiastic volunteers. We eat organic food (no GMOs)-much of it produced in our large garden. We live in a scenic location 45 minutes north of Williams Lake, BC, Canada along the Fraser River.
Drop us a line for more information about our project or the area: mikedavidbird @ gmail.com
We would like help with workparties scheduled for the week-ends in May. We have built a cob home and are getting ready to lay the earthen floor as well as building a passive solar greenhouse. Anyone interested in helping would be graciously hosted. We are in Northern Arizona. Best Wishes!
Maybe I managed to miss it when I went searching through the different workshops listed but any planned in Montana? South-central would be perfect! I’d like to eventually construct a cob house on my land but need to gain experience and see if it is really what I want to do…would like the opportunity to volunteer at a nearby site or participate at a local workshop. Thanks. Cat
Hi,
I’ve been messing with cob some and I’m south of Butte. Where are you located?
Has anyone contacted you with cob workshops? I would like to participate in one myself.
Tom Elpel in Silver Star, Mt has workshops on building with stone and
maybe other stuff, but not cob.
LeRoy
I would like to add a room onto my home made of cob. Don’t Know how to start.
Here’s where I would start to get help here: Where is your house located? When do you want to do the addition? How many square feet are you planning to add? Do you have experience yourself or do you need someone to help you plan? Do you have materials stockpiled already?
Any free workshops or work parties out there?
Volunteering at Abrazo House, in Spain
Seeking work exchanger for natural building, gardening, and vineyard work
im looking for work exchange if there is any out there let me know ….. bryan36b @ msn.com