You have just opened the door to a wonderful, sustainable, eco-friendly reality! Cob buildings create an environment that is nourishing to the soul. Becky Bee is is in love with cob and so became the founder and mother of Groundworks, a cob building company. Becky shares her experience in workshops using natural materials of clay, sand, straw, mud and alternative building materials. She helps people make hand-sculpted environmentally friendly housing. Becky offers hands on workshops for co-ed groups as well as women only events. It is in this way that Becky, who, "Wants to make sense in a world where many things don't", makes her contribution. Becky is author of the Cob-Builders Handbook and You Can Make the Best Hot Tub Ever!
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  • Solar compatible
  • Energy efficient
  • Affordable
  • Long lasting
  • Non-toxic
  • Warm in the winter
  • Cool in the summer
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Contact:

19145 Upper Cow Creek Road
Azalea, OR 97410
U.S.A.

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cob hand-sculpted bench
The sculpted bench that was created
despite unseasonal rains
during our spring 2003 workshop in San Diego.

At the 6th Women's Natural Building Symposium a wonderful gang of gals and five fun kids created a week long family group from across the states and as far afield as Ireland and Japan. A great time was had by all making plaster magic on the sacred cob temple in the Arkansas Ozarks.
electricity workshop women's symposium
Heather Windsor gave in depth lessons on
how to wire your own house.

thatch demonstration, woman studied in Ireland, traditional reed thatching
Erin Collins gave a talk and demonstration of her work in
Ireland doing traditional reed thatching.

Cob Building Stories

Costa Rica — Spring 2006

6th Annual Women's Symposium

Ecuador 2002 Adventures

Urban Natural Building Project in Portland

Ecuador 2001 Workshop

"I was flying by the seat of my pants...."
How Lois Lewis, 72, Built Her Own Home
Interview by Becky Bee

Books Available
From Groundworks

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cob builders handbook


THE COB BUILDERS HANDBOOK

A step by step, user friendly guide on how to make your own hand-sculpted earth home! 180 pages with lots of illustrations.
$19.95 + shipping (see below)
cob hot tub book

You Can Make
THE BEST HOT TUB EVER!
This book is out of print.
Relax! Warm your Bones!
Get to Know the Sky!"
by Becky Bee.
A detailed description on how to make a great wood fired hot tub in your back yard for very little cost!!
$12.95 + shipping (see below)
You can order an unbound photocopy of this book for the same price. (photocopy expense is more than print of this book)

earth oven book
 BUILD YOUR OWN EARTH OVEN
A low-cost, wood-fired mud oven; simple sourdough Bread; perfect loaves - more than 100 illustrations.
by Kiki Denzer - 128 pages,
$18.95 + shipping (see below)
cob builders handbook10 for special

 

 10 COB BUILDERS HANDBOOK SPECIAL!
Bulk Order of Item #1:
Ten copies of
The Cob Builders Handbook
$120.00 includes shipping.
A great offer for gift giving or for students of that
workshop you're planning.
Just $12.00 each!

 

To Order a Copy: send your address and US price of book plus:
(within the US or Canada) US $5.00 shipping costs for the first book and US $1.00 for each additional book
(outside the US or Canada) US $10.00 shipping costs for the first book plus US $2.50 for each addtional book to: 19145 Upper Cow Creek Road, Azalea, OR 97410, U.S.A.
Please make checks out to Becky Bee
Contact us for overseas shipping prices.

 

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