Call us:
01297 444275 or 07949 241815
Email Us:
Cob courses, school workshops and cob commissions
Meet your tutor!
Kate Edwards
After many years working as an Art Psychotherapist Kate was looking for a new challenge when she discovered a cob building course in Ireland. She attended the 3-week course and then continued to learn and work in cob, initially building beautiful cob and straw-bale art studios for clients.
She then built her own award winning co-bale home in Norfolk and began running her earth building courses. To date Kate has taught thousands of people from around the world how to build with earth.
One Day -
Cob Pizza Oven Course
Do you love the taste of authentic wood fired pizza? Do you fancy building your own pizza oven for almost nothing?
Don’t splash out thousands of quid on a ready made brick oven – go for the more affordable, authentic, beautiful and sustainable option and build one yourself. You can sculpt it and shape it as you want – it will be a work of art for your garden as well as a delicious wood fired oven. You’ll definitely taste the difference and your friends will be seriously impressed you built your own oven.
This course makes an ideal birthday gift and is an excellent introduction to Cob building.
4-day complete cob building course
A course for the person who is interested in building their own low cost and eco-friendly home or garden studio/office; with all the practical know-how and theory you need. We share the latest research and regulations with you and will advise you on your own individual projects if you already have ideas or plans in mind. You will leave the course ready to make your dream a reality.The 4-day cob course will take place at our new bespoke cob training location in the hills in Uplyme, Lyme Regis. The course includes mouth-watering homemade lunches and cakes. We take the eating as seriously as the cob building so you can expect a delicious 4 days!
Some examples of what cob-course participants have built after the 4-day course:
"This course is rammed full of information and practical activities. It is impossible to comprehensively cover every aspect of building a cob house in 4 days, but supplemented with your own research it is definitely worth doing if you are serious about building a cob structure. The course leader Kate is a very experienced and knowledgeable teacher having worked professionally with Cob for 20 years, her infectious passion will give confidence to total newcomers and to those who need a push to turn their dream into a reality. All aspects from planning and regulations to roof building are covered. You will learn things that you wont find in any book or article but in order to get the most out of the course I recommend some prior research and to go over the information every night as it is densely packed. Hence the need for the Michelin star lunches which includes one of the finest pizzas your ever likely to eat!"
Danny
