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Guidestone Farm COB Kitchen

In a fit of inspiration and a dream without a deadline, an industrious intern, Tom Morrisey, took a pile of mud, sand and few bales of straw and roof and voila! A summer kitchen attached to the intern cabins! COB is a traditional old way of building homes in England. A mixture of sand and clay is reinforced with a bit of straw, shaped into a loaf (a "cob") and then stacked and packed to form the wall.
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Guidestone Cob Kitchen
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Guidestone Cob Kitchen
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Guidestone Cob Kitchen
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Guidestone Cob Kitchen
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