Tag Archive: cob building

[ June 9, 2012 to June 17, 2012. ] This is one of the most comprehensive cob course available in North America. In the past 15 years, we’ve taught almost 200 major cob courses and wrote the book on it too (The Hand Sculpted House)! In 9 intensive days, we’ll cover in depth all aspects of cob and the many techniques of building with [...]

[ August 18, 2011 to August 21, 2011. ]

OK- we won’t be tasting mud but we will be trying our hands at all things cob related. This course will focus on building an oven and you will leave with the skills to build one of your own! And as with our longer eight day course, we will have a lot of fun and [...]

[ August 5, 2011 to August 14, 2011. ] This course will teach you everything you need to know to dig up some dirt and magically turn it into a
home. We’re not kidding! Oh yeah, and we will show you how to do it for under $1000 bucks… and one
more thing, we will have a blast doing it!

Come stay and play with us [...]

[ September 17, 2011 to September 25, 2011. September 17, 2011 to September 25, 2011. ] Start Date / End Date:: Sept 17th – 25th, 2011This is one of the most comprehensive cob course available in North America. In the past 15 years, we’ve taught almost 200 major cob courses. In 9 intensive days, we’ll cover in depth all aspects of cob and the many techniques of building with cob including [...]

[ August 6, 2011 to August 14, 2011. ] Workshop participants will join three experienced natural builders in constructing a cob and strawbale garden wall and meditation studio in the backyard of a current house building project in a Downtown Durham neighborhood. This is an intensive, hands-on workshop, intended to teach participants the basics of cob and strawbale construction. In addition to building with [...]

[ July 23, 2011 to July 30, 2011. ] What else makes these courses special?
-You’ll see firsthand how humans can build with what nature provides, without destroying the beauty that is offered.
-You’ll also have many opportunities to master making cob itself. You’ll learn the “traditional” technique, known to cobbers throughout our wet coast, and we’ll learn how to modify it so that you can [...]

[ August 20, 2011 to September 4, 2011. ] Classes are on Saturday and Sundays from 10am-6pm

Build your Portable Earthen Home- Workshop

Earthen Culture brings old world building techniques to the present, for people who want to build for a sustainable and healthy future.

In 3 weekends learn all you need to know to build your own portable earth-made home. With the intention to connect deeply [...]

[ June 18, 2011 to June 26, 2011. ] Natural Cob Building with Spirit Workshop

Come join us build a unique classroom at the Ananda College of Living Wisdom. The structure will be made from a mixture of Cob, and Bale-Cob techniques. Bale-Cob is one of the fastest way to build using straw bales, and cob, as a structurally sound wall system. [...]

[ June 9, 2011 to June 12, 2011. ] In this 4 day workshop, we will explore the basics of several different earthen building techniques. This hands-on/feet-on project will focus on sculpting walls for an earthen playhouse.

To register contact Carolyn Marie Hernandez carolynhernandez@netzero.net
805-312-2002

This workshop is part of Wild Earth’s 2011 Naturally Building Your Nest Workshop Series designed to support your empowerment to create inspired, [...]

[ July 23, 2011 to July 26, 2011. ] The Essential Cob workshop will cover the basics of cob mixing, and building as we raise the walls of a structure. Bring some soil to conduct soil tests. Discussions will be held on material gathering, site and design, plasters, renders, foundations and floors.

Workshop size limited to 10 participants. Pre-registration is required. $50 non-refundable place holding [...]

[ August 1, 2011 to August 4, 2011. ]

The Essential Cob workshop will cover the basics of cob mixing, and building as we raise the walls of a structure. Bring some soil to conduct soil tests. Discussions will be held on material gathering, site and design, plasters, renders, foundations and floors.

Workshop size limited to 10 participants. Pre-registration is required. $50 non-refundable place holding [...]

[ August 26, 2011 to August 29, 2011. ] The Essential Cob workshop will cover the basics of cob mixing, and building as we raise the walls of a structure. Bring some soil to conduct soil tests. Discussions will be held on material gathering, site and design, plasters, renders, foundations and floors.

Workshop size limited to 10 participants. Pre-registration is required. $50 non-refundable place holding [...]

[ June 24, 2011 to June 27, 2011. ] The Essential Cob workshop will cover the basics of cob mixing, and building along with soil testing, material gathering, discussions on site and design, plasters, renders, foundations and floors.

Workshop size limited to 10 participants. Pre-registration is required. $50 non-refundable place holding fee due within 5 days of registration (taken off total amount). 10% off for [...]

[ May 7, 2011; ] A one day introduction to cob building that covers history, advantages, essential aspects, materials (testing and location), siting, foundations, drainage, tools, mixing, sculpting and plasters. Hands-on learning.
RRU Cob Building flyer.pdf (465 KB)

[ July 9, 2011 to July 11, 2011. ] Join us for this 4th in a series of workshops to build “Querencia”, a strawbale/cob artist studio at Taproot Farm. Querencia is a whimsical, earth-friendly oasis designed to nurture the inner “creative”. The interior walls, a wrap-around couch, the entry bench, and storage shelves will be sculpted out of cob.

Cob is a mixture of clay, [...]