I'm happy to announce my upcoming Fall 2026 Cob & Straw Building Workshops are open for registration. Come and join us in beautiful eastern Tennessee for our next Introduction to Cob and Straw Workshops! We will be constructing both a cob building and a straw-clay building, applying lime plaster finish, and pouring an earthen floor! This workshop is perfect for beginners and experts alike! You will get the expert knowledge to build with cob and straw! Either for small-scale structures or large-scale projects like homes and buildings. Please click the link below to get the schedule and class details. Click Here for Schedule and Workshop Details I have NOT raised class prices, and I've added even more great benefits to the classes. So, you can still enjoy the low pricing and incredible value ratio! I look forward to meeting more of you here this Fall! Alex

We made a trial wall to test our mixture. It's looking good so far. Also got the bricks finished this week. Letting the mortar set up a bit before pouring concrete in the walls. Do the cob walls need deadman wherever we put walls?

Started working on making cob slip forms and put in door frames. We got sand delivered and brick work should start Monday 😁

Hello to everyone, my husband, our daughter, and I have a nice piece of land where we are starting our project to self-build a COB house. We'd like to ask you all about your experience connecting a new section of a COB house to an existing one. We want an 8-meter x 14-meter house, but we can't build it all in one go, so we have designed the floor plan with two rectangles, one attached to the other. Our doubt arises when connecting the walls of the first construction to the new one ..... any ideas? Thank you all for this great community 😉

Okay walk me through making the frame openings. I'm looking at the pictures you have, and it looks like the boards span the entire 18 in width, do I really need to use 18 in boards or If I use 10 in boards would that cause issues?