Has anyone experimented with using pine straw instead of regular stamraw for a cob mix and/or for insulation on a pallet cob? Just curious because I've got tons and tons of pine straw around here.

Wishing you all a happy holiday season, see you next year! I’m up on Cobb Mountain now in Lake County visiting friends, family & cob creations…

I just visited Andrea’s cobin out here in Saint Helena Ca where she is building herself a Palletable Cobin. Thought y’all would like to see her progress. She’s definitely needing some help with the Cob so we’re talking about putting together on the sort of work party to help make that happen.

I'm new to the group and am really excited about natural building and permaculture. I'd love to hear from anyone with experience dealing with building codes/more restrictive areas and how best to navigate building pallet cob structures in those places. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!

Here is the finished cobin. We planted the garden on the roof yesterday and had fun enjoying the light show caused by the bottle star and stain glass