I live in SE Portland OR…
I built a cob house with a few friends back in 2003. The friend that we were building for is still living in her little cob house and now has added a tiny cob yoga studio in the woods behind her house. I haven’t done too much building since then but really want to. I always dream about it and am thinking of building an oven somewhere into my garden space this summer. I garden about 4500 square feet packed with food so there will be lots of tasty pizza toppings! I’d be happy to help out on any natural building projects happening in and around the Portland area. It would be great to meet some fellow cobbers, get some more experience under my belt and to get my hands and feet back into the mud!
Cheers!

We are new to the Portland area. We bought a fixer-upper in the SE and our yard is fairly good-sized for creating a mini community for our teen and some friends to live in. She was raised a free spirit and we always told her she shouldn’t have to live inside the box…doing what she doesn’t want to do just so she can survive. We really believe that as a community we can all live in small groups within walking distance of other groups, each sharing and bartering for each groups’ needs without the necessity of money and outside rules/controls to keep us “civilized,” etc.

Anyway, our yard is a pretty good size (better than no yard, anyway) and somewhat private. So, we’ve offered it to our daughter and have encouraged her to build a small community, learning to live outside the box and doing without the need for money as much as possible while living here in this wonderful city of Portland.

She LOVES working with the earth and has been doing things with mud/clay since she was very young. So, she naturally is drawn to working with cob and will build structures, an oven, garden walls, etc., with cob.

If you’re interested in possibly helping us build with cob, offering advice of how to best utilize our space if you’re an experienced cobber and/or landscaper, let me know. We’re new to using cob, creating a small community, landscaping, and also trying to live without the flow of cash as much as possible…so it’s going to be a learning experience all around for us. I’m convinced that nothing is impossible if we can dream it up.

Love,

Wendi
XOXOXO

We are new to the Portland area. We bought a fixer-upper home in the SE and are slowly working on it. Our yard is a bit larger than normal, so we’ve told our teen that we will help her create a community space for her and her friends to live. We’re going to be building some cob structures (one “home” that is within code/permitting in PDX), as well as an outdoor cob oven for cooking, some garden walls, some benches, etc. Right now it’s an open slate and we’re making plans. A tent was ordered so she can live out there with her friends this summer, as they build the cob structures.

You can contact me if you’d like to talk about possibly coming by to help once the cob work begins (or even before if you just want to meet and see the space we’ll be developing). My email is GypsyArdor at yahoo dot com.

We have no training with cob, so we’ll all be learning as we go.

Love,

Wendi

i’m also in northern california at emerald earth above boonville

i’m interested in talking with you

doug
707-972-3096 (call and leave message)