Dear Action Line: Could you dig up some dirt on the “cob bench” thing in Buckley Park? It was kerplunked there years ago without permission. Winter was not kind to this lumpy brown mass. Maybe it ...

Learn how these Natural Home Earth Movers reconstructed an early 20th-century cob bench. In 1906 Alice Hext commissioned a bench made of cob and thatch for her gardens in Mawnan Smith in Cornwall, ...

Miguel Elliott still recalls walking through the Rancho Petaluma Adobe on a fourth grade field trip. “It was a super-hot day but it was cool within the structured earth walls of the fort and I thought ...

Cob (an old English word for lump) is old-fashioned concrete, made out of a mixture of clay, sand and straw. Becky Bee’s The Cob Builders Handbook (Chelsea Green Publishing, 1998) is a friendly guide ...

Marielle Amrhein and her husband, Karim Bishay, moved with their children Malak and Noor from Oakland to Lagunitas two years ago. Soon, they will celebrate the launch of their home’s new garden ...