[Cob] Summer Cob in Midwest?

[Amanda Peck]

It also kind of depends on what you mean by midwest.

For instance The Farm is in an adjoining state , and they often have 
something in the way of formal courses--yep, taught by among other people 
Howard and Katey.  Mind you there are not manh miles in contact between the 
two states, and we'd call Tennessee the mid-south or upper south, but The 
Farm might only be about 160 miles from the Mississippi River at Memphis, 
probably a little less to Dyersburg.  Here's a list of their stuff.  (of 
course it's betwixt and between distance from me--just in order to stay 
there, I'd have to put the dogs and cats in the kennel, but it's just close 
enough that I could lose a lot of company and fellowship by commuting about 
45 minutes each way daily.)

http://www.thefarm.org/etc/

And aren't there some people in South-Western Michigan who do a lot with 
plastering workshops, and at least one of our people on this list in "one of 
them northern midwest states.?"



Bill C. replied to Carmen:
At 3:55 PM -0500 2/20/06, carmenkittiecat at aim.com wrote:
>I'm in St. Louis, MO. Does anyone know of any cob (and/or strawbale) 
>activities in the Midwest this summer? I've looked around to no avail, not 
>sure if I'm searching correctly. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I don't know of any yet - such projects often don't announce this many 
months in advance - but keep an eye on our sustainable building calendar at 
http://greenbuilder.com/calendar/ .  We try to post all the good stuff we're 
aware of, and since it's self-service, there are often events which we 
otherwise wouldn't have been aware of.

Also, you may want to check out our Willing Workers in Alternative 
Technology networking list.  See http://greenbuilder.com/wwat/ for details.


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Bill Christensen