The clay, sand and straw came from free local sources. All of the wood in every home you seen in the slide show came from beached logs on the ocean and in lakes. The wood was milled on a local community saw mill, which was only 2500.00 and it could cut almost any size of log into various types of cuts.

The idea around cob is to source your materials for free locally. The windows came from local salvage yards, habitat for humanity thrift stores and old materials from people renovating their homes.

So you can build these homes for under 20,000. Most of the owners I spoke with and interviewed used the methods I mentioned in building their homes.

They also hosted building workshops where people came to learn the art of cob building so labor was free.

100 years ago, most people built their own homes and we should be taking ownership over our lives and learning how to build our own homes again. It is much better than be in debt to the banks and you can build a cob home for what people pay for in rent in 1-2 years.