Cob houses are becoming increasingly popular in the United States, where it makes sense to do so. These states make it easy to build these mud and straw homes.

Living in a cob house isn’t something homeowners do to blend with the neighbourhood, and Patrick Hennebery knows this firsthand. He lived in a cob house on Mayne Island for 10 years.

Fresh corn on the cob is awesome, but much easier to eat when the kernels are sliced off. If you don’t have a bundt pan to hold the corn, you can create a makeshift one to do the same job.

At a time when toilets have come to symbolize North Carolina’s biggest political controversy, the appearance of four pristine potties lined up outside Mecklenburg County commissioner Pat Cotham ...