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Darryl Berlin



Darryl Berlin has been an educator and Natural builder for the last 17 years, getting his start in earthen building by participating in a week long Cob workshop led by  Michael Smith, co-founder of Cob Cottage Company.  Darryl teamed up with Michael and others to restart  Emerald Earth Sanctuary, an intentional community in Northern California. While living and teaching there he worked with many Natural Building techniques, including Cob, which was used in many of the homes, greenhouses, sculptural benches and earthen ovens built at Emerald Earth.   Continuing to be fascinated with the building possibilities of clay, he is currently bringing earthen building into the mainstream, by working with professional building contractors wanting to utilize straw bale, cob and  clay plasters in the buildings.

Current Courses
 
NB106 Build a Cob Bench
Dates: 06/23/2012 - 06/24/2012
Location: Hopland, CA  $120.00
Mud has been used to create dwellings and structures since humans first created shelters 10,000 years ago.  Cob, a traditional method of building with earth, is one those techniques.  Similar to adobe, it uses local clay, sand, and straw to create durable structures. Our cob bench project allows you to get familiar with the properties of cob as a b...

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