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| The chicken coop at the Black Range Lodge. The wall in the foreground is tractor-cob (made with a backhoe instead of feet), with very large rocks set into it - typically considered to be a no-no per many cob people. This wall was built in two days, in two lifts, by one person. The chicken coop behind it is strawbale with earthen plaster, with bamboo poles supporting the roof (which is made of torchdown-covered Stramit; Stramit being a straw-board product). On the left side of the picture is a glimpse of the cement-stuccoed orchard wall described on page four of issue #25 of The Last Straw. |
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| Casa Chica at the Black Range Lodge, featured in issue #17 of The Last Straw. The foundation is part natural stone and part earthbags (see the Earthbag section for earthbag photos), and the building is made from straw bales, cob, wattle-and-daub, unmilled timber, stuff like that. Earthen floor, earthen plasters. (See the Sun Ray gallery for photos of even wilder framing than this.) This photo is from the Strawbale section. |
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| Making a rammed earth column. This photo is from the Colorado Natural Building Workshop section. |
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| A mud bird in a nicho at The Canelo Project. This photo is from the Buildings part of the Canelo Project section. |
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| This photo is from the Buildings part of the Canelo Project section. |
