Water chestnuts

After a tussle with a tin can of water chestnuts on friday night, this next week on the cottage (the last push of cob!) may be even more exciting and demanding than I had previously anticipated: an opportunity to master one-handed cobbing.


We've been receiving great feedback from the workshop!

Nita was our oldest participant, weighing in at 6 decades of life. She drove from Boone, NC in her little Honda Insight, and was (I think) the hardest worker of the bunch. She was often the last to leave the site, and volunteered her energy whenever we needed some extra help with clean-up, or tarp-tying, or gathering materials. She put together a really nice slide-show of all the photos she took:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqR0Igs63G8

Danielle was not only great during the workshop, but she lingered at the farm for a couple days after, and will be back again this wednesday for a "work party!" She took some really nice photos, and compiled them here. Danielle is involved with her husband and two friends in starting a small-scale organic gardening operation in Silk Hope, NC. She will be putting up a cob house within the next two years. We took a field trip to her land during the workshop and found the most amazing collection of clays, so I can't wait to see what she does.