VICTOR, Mont. — A couple in Victor is living a lifestyle created by their own hands, and now they’re teaching others how to do it themselves. Their home is on the grid, gets its water from a well and ...

A Montana couple who built a home from clay and straw brings to mind “The Three Little Pigs” fairytale. But Daniel and Katherine Ray, the ambitious and frugal home builders, are not interested in ...

Do you find yourself staring at concrete walls, daydreaming about an idyllic life close to nature? Does the sight of drywall make you want to pack your bags, lock the door, and run off into the forest ...

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, ...

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 ...

A series of hands-on workshops can show you how to make a structurally sound earthen building using local materials.The Build Your Own Cob Cabin Workshop Series will show participants how to build a ...

Miguel Elliott, founder of Living Earth Structures and a longtime resident of Petaluma, moved to Maui last fall after the devastating fires there, with the intention of sharing his knowledge of ...

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 ...