This is a unique opportunity to learn traditional Japanese plastering and contemporary earth and lime finishes at one of Japan's premier Permaculture sites. An intensive training including history, plastering procedures, materials […]

About The Workshop This six-day workshop will cover considerations on picking a house site including passive solar design, building a rubble trench and natural rock and lime mortar foundation, wattle and […]

***Course will be taught in English or in English & Spanish depending on student needs.*** HOST & LOCATION CruzinCobGlobal will be returning to Chile for a second Cob building workshop […]

Intro to Ecological Construction For thousands of years, people have been building their homes out of the dirt beneath their feet. Natural and vernacular building techniques have roots in every […]

Introduction to Cob Workshop – Keystone Heights, Florida   Dates: April 13 – April 17, 2020 Location: Keystone Heights, Florida Come and join us in Florida for our next Introduction […]

Come and experience a “cob community” in the cloud forests of El Salvador´s highest mountain. This workshop is being hosted by the Clouds of El Pital Eco-Tourism Cooperative. Our cooperative […]

This is a 4-part series that covers practice and theory of structural systems (timber framing), insulation (straw bales) and thermal mass wall systems (cob, adobe, wattle and daub). Each intensive […]

Part one in a 4-part series that covers practice and theory of structural systems (timber framing), insulation (straw bales) and thermal mass wall systems (cob, adobe, wattle and daub). This […]

Dates: May 11 – May 15, 2020 Location: Jonesborough, Tennessee Sign up here: https://www.thiscobhouse.com/introduction-to-cob-workshop-jonesborough-tennessee/ Come and join us in beautiful eastern Tennessee for our next Introduction to Cob Workshop! We […]

Last year, we introduced this Short Course and it was a great success. You'll get a full sense of our Fast Cob technique (which allowed 1.5 people to build the […]

Part two in a 4-part series that covers practice and theory of structural systems (timber framing), insulation (straw bales) and thermal mass wall systems (cob, adobe, wattle and daub). This […]

Part three in a 4-part series that covers practice and theory of structural systems (timber framing), insulation (straw bales) and thermal mass wall systems (cob, adobe, wattle and daub). This […]

Part four in a 4-part series that covers practice and theory of structural systems (timber framing), insulation (straw bales) and thermal mass wall systems (cob, adobe, wattle and daub). This […]

One-Day Cob House Build See video from 2014's event here When: June 12-14, 2020 Where: Rosewater Ranch, Long Valley, 30 minutes northwest of Reno, Nevada. Cost: $150 includes meals, instruction, camping spot Instructors: Kyle Isacksen, […]

Dates: June 15 – June 19, 2020 Location: Keystone Heights, Florida Come and join us in Florida for our next Introduction to Cob Workshop! We will be constructing a cob […]

Dates: June 22 – June 26, 2020 Location: Jonesborough, Tennessee Come and join us in beautiful eastern Tennessee for our next Introduction to Cob Workshop! We will be constructing a […]

Our two Oven & Bench workshops will take place in Petris, Romania, after the 5-week Advanced Cob Building workshop, from Sep 6-13, and  on the Azores island of São Miguel […]