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!

I was working on building a Cob Oven today here in Oregon at the Cob Cottage Company and thought I would share with you the process. I mentioned the insulation…It’s also possible to make an insulation mixture with Clay and lots of straw packed tightly or lover rock mixed with Clay, or sawdust mixed with Clayif you don’t have access to perlite. I like using the pear light though because it forms together into a ball and stays pretty compact when putting it over the thermal mass layer. We will probably take out the sand mold tomorrow and get a few little fires going in the oven to dry it out before putting the insulation layer on. It’s very important to make a very dense cob mix of up to 80% Sand 20 % with not very much water so that it forms together into a ball and won’t slump when putting it on the oven this will also help to keep the oven from cracking. If your Oven does crack though, when you fire it up, don’t be too alarmed. it can easily be patched up.. It does help in the curing process to have the Oven dry slowly so small little curing fires are better than big raging fires for the curing process.

Hello, this is a picture of the site for my cobin that will be my greenhouse and Art Studio in colorado. I'm currently leveling the ground and digging out a trench for a french drain since the site is at the bottom of a hill. I'm also collecting pallets and I'm planning for the roof to be part living room and parts triple layer polycarbonate to let light in. Has anyone done a roof like that before?

Hi. Working on clay slip mix and cob for offshoots on trunks1st. There is no where I have seen any 1 doing this and tired of pruning offshoots. Hope this solves that. Made video on this. Short is here, full is on my Tuby. https://www.instagram.com/reel/Db4iAUex5VQ/?igsh=eHRnbnV3d2UyMWkw

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!