Explore the vibrant tiny home community of Cranmore Meadows in North Carolina. This video offers an inside look at life in ...

While building codes in the U.S. are only just starting to catch up, and you'll want to brush up on how to navigate getting permits, it's possible to get a cob house permitted in any state.

Tong also is building a cob guesthouse in her parents’ backyard in Berkeley. Cob “is not something people are widely aware of, and I do think it should be one of the tools in the kit,” she said.

“Brown is the new green,” says Elliott, 50, who built a 120-square-foot cob house of his own on a ranch outside Sebastopol in west Sonoma County “Nothing is more sustainable.

Brian Liloia, a former Green Building Elements writer and a resident of an eco-village called The Dancing Rabbit, recently self-published his first book, "The of Year of Mud: Building a Cob House ...

Submitted by the Cob Research Institute — an organization with which both Rabin and Ben-Alon are affiliated — the adoption should make building cob structures easier in the future. “Part of our ...

Building a Cob House to Code: Cob Shrinkage Test The shrinkage test is the most straightforward and can easily be done on-site by the builder. All you need is a box made out of 2-by-4s.

For two years, Daniel and Katharine Ray worked on their house on their 5-acre property in the Bitterroot, building primarily out of cob -- a combination of dirt, clay, water and straw.