House Alive! Cob, natural building,
natural design & appropriate technology

Links

The following links are all connected to organizations that teach workshops on Natural Building. I have a personal friendship with most of these people and have known them to be quality, caring educators. Clicking on these links will open their websites in a separate window.

Ancient Earth School of Natural Building
These people have done some beautiful cob and natural building work and are wonderful teachers.

Cob Cottage Company
Cottage Grove, Coquille, OR. Greatly contributed to the revival of cob in the USA and worldwide. They offer a great variety of workshops and apprenticeships on cob and natural building.

Cob Works
Located on Mayne Island, BC, Canada. These talented builders have dotted this beautiful island with gorgeous natural buildings. Besides natural building, they also do workshops on carpentry.

Cobworkshops.org
This site provides a directory of cob and related workshops in North America.

Emerald Earth
An intentional community in Mendocino County, CA with beautiful permaculture gardens. Among other things, they teach several workshops a year on Natural building.

Groundworks
Located in Murphy, OR. Becky Bee has been teaching in the USA and abroad for many years. She focuses in particular on women and building.

Kleiwerks
This organization has been involved with many international projects as well as workshops in the south-east of the USA.

Seven Generations Natural Builders
These are several students from The Cob Cottage apprenticeship program, teaching workshops throughout the country.

Cob Together
Teaching cob and natural building workshops in Southern Oregon, mostly in the summer months.

Barefoot Builder
Providing the much needed workshops in the South Eastern United States. Their cob structures have done fine in hurricanes!

Here are some other related organizations and businesses that have linked to our site.

Green Home Building

EcoBusiness Links Environmental Directory

White Oak Farm & Education Center