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Ziggy’s Timber Framing Workshop
Ziggy reports to Lloyd on the recent timber frame workshop.“Our recent Timber Framing Workshop went amazingly well and was a huge blast. The students had a fantastic time. We got an incredible amount...
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Building A Green Roof
There’s a lot of construction work going on at the Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage. Ziggy reports on the progress:“Just like building our cob house, the living roof of our new straw bale house has had me...
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Building a Roundwood Spiral Staircase
The completed roundwood spiral staircase At last, I’m here to report that April and I accomplished building the round wood spiral staircase. Over the course of five days, literally up to the day...
View ArticleWould You Consider an Earthen Floor?
In June, I finished installing the earthen floor in my cob house. In October, I built the base layer of the earthen floor, a 2.5″ thick mix of sand, clay, and straw. It dried over fall and winter (very...
View ArticleCob Building Workshop in Kentucky this September
September 5-7, 2014 for a 3 day workshop to learn cob building essentials — we’ll be building a sheltered outdoor bench from the ground up, and an interior wall full of artistic touches in a newly...
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Ziggy Reports from The Timber Frame Workshop
Things are progressing smoothly for us here in Nacogdoches. We have fairly quickly moved on from layout to cutting the joinery for the Lake Naconiche timber frame pavilion. I personally haven’t spent...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ziggy’s Timber Framing Workshop
Ziggy reports to Lloyd on the recent timber frame workshop. “Our recent Timber Framing Workshop went amazingly well and was a huge blast. The students had a fantastic time. We got an incredible amount...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Building A Green Roof
There’s a lot of construction work going on at the Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage. Ziggy reports on the progress: “Just like building our cob house, the living roof of our new straw bale house has had me...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Building a Roundwood Spiral Staircase
The completed roundwood spiral staircase At last, I’m here to report that April and I accomplished building the round wood spiral staircase. Over the course of five days, literally up to the day...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Would You Consider an Earthen Floor?
In June, I finished installing the earthen floor in my cob house. In October, I built the base layer of the earthen floor, a 2.5″ thick mix of sand, clay, and straw. It dried over fall and winter (very...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cob Building Workshop in Kentucky this September
September 5-7, 2014 for a 3 day workshop to learn cob building essentials — we’ll be building a sheltered outdoor bench from the ground up, and an interior wall full of artistic touches in a newly...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ziggy Reports from The Timber Frame Workshop
Things are progressing smoothly for us here in Nacogdoches. We have fairly quickly moved on from layout to cutting the joinery for the Lake Naconiche timber frame pavilion. I personally haven’t spent...
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