A step by step, user friendly guide on
how to make your own hand-sculpted earth home!
180 pages with lots of illustrations.

THE COB BUILDERS
HANDBOOK
YOU CAN HAND-SCULPT
YOUR OWN HOME

BY BECKY BEE

$19.95

THE HANDBOOK INCLUDES:
Detailed building instructions Designing your home
Choosing a site Making different types of foundations
How to put in windows & doors Basics of roofs
Floor options Lots of practical tips
Natural plasters and paints Helpful pictures and diagrams

"Thank-you! I just finished your Cob Builders Handbook and I have never been so fired up as I am now about a future cob home. A well written book; I could not put it down until I finished reading it."
David B. Wilson--Jan 22-1999

"Hi Becky Bee-
Just wanted to say my husband and I read your handbook about two years ago and are now very close to finished with our cob house, 800 square ft. round, 32 ft. diameter, in northern carolinas. Your book was our only instruction in cobbing, and it is so well written, I feel like I owe you a great debt. It has been a tremendous amount of work, but fun too!"
Thanks-Rebekah (and Stephen)" 09-04-2001

"Dear Becky Bee- I was so excited about cob houses and talked about it so much my father bought me your book for my birthday. I'm going to build a cob house because of you!!! I found you and your book to be nothing short of delightful."
Eve Baird

"Your book is by far the most empowering book relating to Shelter-building. Perhaps because I'm a woman & you're speaking/thinking women's language! "

"I just bought the Cob Builders Handbook and I love it. I must know more !!!!"
Sue Cartwright

To Order a Copy: send your address and US$19.95 per book plus:
(within the US or Canada) US$4.00 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: P.O. Box 381, Murphy, OR 97533, U.S.A.
Please make checks out to Becky Bee
Contact us for overseas shipping prices.

To purchase books in New Zealand contact:
Alex McMillan
email greg.alex@paradise.net.nz

Other Books Available From Groundworks

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A low-cost, wood-fired mud oven;
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BY KIKO DENZER

EARTH PLASTERS FOR STRAWBALE HOMES
by Keely Meagan

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