Greetings lords and ladies of the cobdom, I’ve just acquired a forest realm in Mexico, which will be the site for our cob dreams to come true. Have very little experience but excited to learn and am grateful to have this community resource to help me. Have been thinking about this for months so I have so many small and big questions such as what local wood am I going to use, how is my soil gonna be for cob, can I make my own stained glass windows without lead or solder, how much should I clear the forest around the cobins… The plan is to eventually have over 10 Cobins! And offer this place as a healing sanctuary to others. The building restrictions are way more relaxed here compared to the US and Europe so that’s helpful. Would love to hear from others what they’re planning/creating, no matter how small or big? Wish I could make this hobbit workshop as I’m close very close to Guatemala, hoping the hobbit house eventually becomes an online course. Good look on your adventures!

Hello everyone. Im delighted to be apart of the community. Im joining from ireland. The past couple of years ive been building a healing centre at the moment im building my first cob ceremony space from pallets. Im going to put a cob floor in also. Im just checking out soil at momenthoping its the correct clay.I've built a small swimming pool with sauna also. I plan to build 2 maybe 3 small hobit houses from cob next

Here’s a little update showing what I’m working on today here at Cobville. I am plastering a cobin built about 20 years ago and explaining the earthen plaster I’m doing over wood. Again, if the wood is smooth, you’ll need to wrap it up with either flower paste with course sand added or primer with course sand added or something I’ve been using recently is something called methyl cellulose I get from Gold hill Clay plaster which works very similar to flour paste. You can also staple a chicken wire or hardware cloth to the wood, but that’s not very fun but it does work. Fortunately, in this case, the wood was rough enough that a Clay slip was all that was needed for the Cob to grab onto the wood. When this is dry, I’ll be doing a clay paint over everything which will consist of equal parts nice colored Red, Clay, very fine silica sand and the Methyl cellulose. I might add a little bit of Mica in it also to make it sparkle. It’s also impossible to do a lime blaster over everything as well followed by a lime wash, but to be honest with you I so prefer doing earthen plasters and if it’s applied, smooth enough and burnished well it does handle water pretty well

Hey Y’all, just thought I’d share with you this little video of the pallet Cob classroom I worked on in Florida. You can see how we built it on a deck rather than on the ground in order to keep all the insects and wildlife around intact.