Welcome! My vision for a better world involves groups of like minded individuals getting together and creating eco friendly homes and spaces for sustainable, healthy living.
"Volunteer oriented community building infastructure with the goal of creating low cost, eco friendly homes with materials just beneath your feet!"
Organizing hands-on natural building workshops where passionate volunteers collaborate to learn earthen architecture while constructing real homes.
Utilizing local clay, subsoil, sand, and straw mixed directly on-site to create fireproof, rot-proof, and ultra-insulated living structures.
Integrating native flora living roofs ("Green Top") that filter rainwater, support biodiversity, and seamlessly blend structures with nature.
A brief look at how earth, straw, and human collaboration built resilient shelters across millennia.
Cob is among humanity's oldest building techniques. Long before kiln-fired bricks or processed timber, ancient societies in Mesopotamia, the Nile Valley, and the Americas mixed raw subsoil with fibrous straw to form monolithic walls.
Derived from the Old English word cobbe (meaning "rounded mass"), cob became the primary building material in Devon, England, and Brittany, France. Thousands of 400-year-old cob homes remain inhabited today, standing as proof of their incredible fireproof and weather-resistant durability.
Today, cob is experiencing a global resurgence as a zero-carbon, non-toxic alternative to industrial concrete. Pairing historic cob thermal mass with modern green living roofs offers ultra-affordable, energy-independent living for eco-communities.
Want to volunteer, collaborate on a cob build, or learn more about Green Top Cob? We'd love to connect!