Cob Connection

Our first official fundraiser (Cob Alive!) and you’re all invited.

We’ll be having food, music, activities for the kiddies and a cob making station (for those that want to get into it).

Please contact Chad at 773.317.2622 or Sarah at 312.731.6356 for details, volunteer opportunities, sponsorship or any special needs.

Hope to see you there!

What is urban agriculture (click the article above to see more on how Cob Connection addresses urban ag)

Urban agriculture is a way of life. It’s a movement that addresses skills, food security and access to healthy affordable food for everyone.

What is cob and green building

Cob is a natural building process using clay, sand and straw. The process of working with cob is collective and intuitive. Basically, you work within a group, stomping on the materials together in order to create the necessary cob mix. With this magic mix, you can create almost anything… benches, tables, a home! By utilizing earth’s oldest materials, cob building reconnects us to the land and helps us to remember that the earth provides us with everything we need.

In conjunction with cob building and green building design, Cob Connection also advocates for local democracy, supporting local economy, provides job skills and retention and implements urban agriculture. The purpose of integrating all of these elements is to facilitate direct experiences that encourage us to transform thoughts, beliefs and behavior. By learning and practicing nonviolent communication, we craft a new language towards conflict resolution and provide an opportunity towards healing within our communities.

Cob Connection works to install school gardens, designs and builds community and school based green projects, offers service learning learning oppurtunities for the youth, provides job skills training in urban agriculture and green building as after school programs and summer programs.