For millennia, people have made durable homes from whatever is nearby. You're probably familiar with adobe, that smooth brown material that lots of us equate with architecture in the American ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: Getty Images Do you find yourself staring at concrete walls, daydreaming about an idyllic life close to nature? Does ...

Baking in the warmth of California’s Cumaya Valley stand three small structures made of an ancient building material: cob. The material is a mixture of clay-heavy soil, straw, sand and water that — ...

Teach yourself how to build a plastic bottle house with cob and transform trash into a home. I build houses out of trash. I was inspired by the life of Kenyan Nobel laureate Wangarĩ Maathai, who said, ...

Creating decorative garden walls for your landscape is something many of us think about, but somehow, the details get in the way. What should I build it from? Can I build it myself? Will it cost a ...

You're currently following this author! Click to unsubscribe from email alerts. Building an earthen home from scratch might sound daunting to some, but for Daniel and Katherine Ray, it's their way of ...

If you've made all the DIY mason jar bird feeders you can, and you're looking for a fun, eco-friendly way to repurpose more of them, a cob wall in your garden might be exactly what you need. Cob walls ...