• Most importantly, it is fun.

• Anybody can help mix and sculpt cob-children, elderly, businessmen.

• Easy to learn in a workshop.

• Very affordable for you use materials right from your land.

• Helps build a relationship with the surrounding earth on your property.

• Keeps excavated clay out of landfill, and uses recycled concrete for foundations.

• Inspires creativity and artistic flare.

• Its design can be rounded, smooth, soft and sensual.

• Is water resistant if protected properly.

• The rounded nature of cob structures makes them earthquake resistant.

• Avoid using wood, saving trees, to give us more healthy air to breath.

• Avoids using cement whose production burns fossil fuels.

• Cob walls breathe, which allows you to live in a living organism.

• Working with cob involves working with community- the ultimate work party.

• Clay in cob can absorb toxins.

• Mixing clay with feet can massage the feet-it feels so good!

• Sculpting the cob strengthens the fingers, and gives the earth a nice massage.

• Is easy to repair, add on, change, or re-plaster.

• It is comfortable, and the design can be an efficient use of space.

• Often the spaces built with cob feels like being inside of a hug.

• Because building a cob house is more affordable, you have more free time.

• Allows you to live more in nature, as cob houses are not yet permitted in the city.

• You can have arched doors, rounded windows, curved walls and a living roof allowing you to live like a hobbit.

• In the process of building and playing in the clay, your inner child comes out.

• Can make ovens, and bake pizzas, bread, casseroles, cookies, etc.

• The ovens allow you to enjoy an outdoor fireplace staying warm in the winter.

• Cob benches allow you to sit, relax, and enjoy life.

• When living in the city, it brings more nature into your life surrounded by cement.

• It is tapping into ancient indigenous building wisdom.

• Allow you to work outside, receiving fresh air and sunlight.

• Gets you into shape, builds muscle, and is good for the skin.

• Can make a good living being hired as a professional cob builder.

• Can travel and work around the world, spreading beautiful functional creations.

• Brings people together- a excellent bonding agent.

• Gives people a sense of accomplishment to build something for themselves.

• Don’t need noisy expensive power tools that burn energy.

• Helps you appreciate Mother Earth, and be more connected to your land.

• The cob material is fire resilient, as fire simply turns it into ceramic.

• With its high thermal mass, Cob absorbs heat during the heat of the day, and radiates it out during the coolness of the night.

• Being barefoot to the Earth alkalizes the body and helps with EMF sensitivities.

• Overall, it is the solution for living a more enjoyable, healthy, satisfying life.

• Gives children, adults and couples a chance to practice teamwork

• Its comfortable and the design can be form fitting

• It’s personally empowering to build a structure for yourself

• Gives a use to rice straw, rather than burning it…Pallets too…

• Excellent for people with chemical sensitivities

• Builds a new social structure where people depend on each other

• In the process of building, gets children away from computers, TV and video games

• When building with pallets, it can be very quick to build, especially with volunteer help