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Thursday, May 19, 2016 - 17:05

collected stuff in the shedWhy I want to use as little new, store-bought building materials as possible, and the beginnings of a collection of reclaimed and found materials.

Wednesday, May 11, 2016 - 19:11

The whole oven, nice and smooth(ish)!Okay, so I had 211 photos to choose from for this article! To make sure it has at least a chance of going online sometime this week, I am going to make this a bit of a picture story: My Second Attempt At A Cob Pizza Oven, In 70 Pictures. And a bit of text.

Wednesday, May 4, 2016 - 11:26

mein ArbeitsstapelJust a list of what’s going on, and an overview of all the good things coming soon (hopefully)!

Tuesday, February 2, 2016 - 15:24

very nice door inside the EarthshipRecently I went on a guided tour through Germany’s first Earthship. That was super interesting!

Thursday, December 24, 2015 - 22:49

Touched by the Hand of CobA ton of pictures and only a bit of text from our cob course at Edwards & Eve Cob Building in August this year. Took me a while to write up again, mostly because I was busy doing some actual work on the plans and the oven :-) and I do hope it’ll convince you all to go attend a course yourselves. Nothing like a cob course to get you going!

Monday, November 16, 2015 - 12:00

Some thoughts I’ve been having for a long time about the fine balance between private and communal rooms, drawing from my experiences living in a community with improvable space design for about four years.

Monday, November 9, 2015 - 11:25

insulation layer finishedHow I built my first cob pizza oven, or as much as I remember of it.

Friday, October 2, 2015 - 12:52

my four boxes, raised on a makeshift benchA summary of all my gardening efforts while this site was offline (Nov 2014 - Sep 2015). Another long one! Spoiler alert: Learned a lot but didn’t really have much harvest to show for it.

Tuesday, June 10, 2014 - 00:14

Bokashi binOnce more a fairly long post on my first couple of weeks with my diy bokashi bin.

Wednesday, May 14, 2014 - 13:57

Mound in the makingMy very first small and very experimental hugelkultur bed. Probably sowed and planted too early, and I’m pretty sure it’ll lose a lot of volume at some point. But it was so much fun!

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