Emerald Earth and Heartland
Ecobuilding fun and permaculture lifestyles! How joyous!
During two back to back wedding weekends i got to spend some time at the Emerald Earth Sustainable living community in Booneville, CA near Hopland, CA. It's definitely a piece of green blissful heaven.
I helped them build a cobb/straw bale house and took a tour of their gardens. It was also a coincidental treat to get to visit my old friends Rain and Zephyr who live a hop skip and a jump away at the Heartland Community in Ukiah (near Hopland). They are building their own cobb/straw bale house and have been creating a permaculture lifestyle with a food forest and mostly perrennials garden.
Below is a picture of a dragon sculpture embedded into the wall of a cobb house at Emerald Earth. This technique is just one of the amazing things you can do with cobb to customize your home. It's an amazing substance..not to mention totally envionmentally friendly (saves trees) and non-toxic.
