{"id":11341,"date":"2011-04-22T12:11:39","date_gmt":"2011-04-22T17:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sustainablog.org\/?p=11341"},"modified":"2011-04-22T12:11:39","modified_gmt":"2011-04-22T17:11:39","slug":"building-a-cob-house-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/building-a-cob-house-book\/","title":{"rendered":"ziggy’s New Book: Building a Cob House"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you’ve followed posts by frequent contributor ziggy<\/a>, you know he’s a hands-on kind of guy: from butchering his own meat<\/a> to building a cob pizza oven<\/a>, he’s an extreme DIYer even at Dancing Rabbit<\/a> (where doing it yourself is pretty much the norm).<\/p>\n

His biggest project, though, is his own home: ziggy built his own tiny house<\/a> at DR with cob (a building materials similar to adobe). He documented the process on his blog The Year of Mud<\/a>, and has now turned those posts, plus ample photos taken of the project, into the book The Year of Mud: Building a Cob House<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Like everything else he’s covered for us, the book is a DIY project: he self-published it through photo book publishing service Blurb<\/a>. The “official” synopsis describes the book as “one novice builder\u2019s story of building his first cob house, a home constructed largely of natural, local materials, many literally straight from the earth and surrounding ecosystem.” ziggy described the book to me as a “Lots of images (60+ color photos), cob building lessons and recipes, a detailed report of how I built my house, and more…”<\/p>\n

I usually don’t write about book unless I’ve read them, but given that I know ziggy’s writing, and have seen the house myself, I have no problem giving it a plug here. If you’re thinking about trying out natural building<\/a> at some level, I’m certain you’ll find it both inspiring and useful.<\/p>\n

You can get a look inside the book through an 11-page preview<\/a>… if you decide to buy it, let us know what you think.<\/p>\n

Ready for Spring cleaning? Check out our listings of chemical-free steam cleaners<\/a>, including the Shark Handheld steam cleaner<\/a>, the Eureka Enviro Steamer<\/a>, and the Bissel Steam Shot<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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