Non profit women's collective with the Mudgirls 😁 3rd year on this project. This year we put in the floors and plastered the walls inside built a pizza oven and a half of a wall outdoors, muddy and happy

Hello everyone! We have a farm in SE Ohio, and we are starting an on-site sauna healing retreat center. I am an acupuncturist and herbalist, so of course there will be lots of classes and treatments as well. Here is a pic of our little garden and propagation area. We made everything ourselves (except for the ancient barn). It was just grass when we moved here a few years ago. Anyways, looking forward to building some cobin saunas and sharing the journey here!

Hi everyone! I have gotten behind on this course due to my own most recent building project. Unfortunately, it is not a cob project (but, those will be on the way soon!!), but is a simple, totally off-grid pine Scandi-hut style cottage that I built with friends and family to set up for my office space for work to see clients and host classes. I would love to build something similar to this out of cob in the future on my property. I think that would be an amazing space, way better than the current pine space. In the future, as this building wears over time and the roof is no longer good, I plan to turn it into a live roof with moss or turf and to potentially add natural plasters to the internal walls. I love how much flexibility cob and natural finishes give us, even for traditional building projects!

What are your thoughts?

I realize that this is a finishing phase of the building process that few of you are actually able to apply currently but I thought you might it interesting. It’s nice to have wooden shutters because you can have the windows completely open during the day without a screen and then close them at night when the mosquitoes are active. The color you see on the outside is a Lime wash with a green iron oxide added and also a brown oxide on the inside. It is a clay paint made up of equal parts flour paste, very fine sand, clay and oxide for color. I also added a little bit of peppermint essential oil for a nice subtle fragrance and also to help keep insects out of the structure. We’ll see if it helps.