In April 2005, Cob Connection began its first project, working with over eight hundred students and local residents here in Chicago to construct a cob bench and oven at the Warren Park Neighborhood Festival. In 2006, Cob Connection partnered with the Tampa Bay Children’s Museum to construct a cob house as a teen leadership development summer program. In 2007, our third year, Cob Connection had the privilege of working with fifteen teens at North Grand High School in Chicago (as seen on the cover of the August issue of Extra Newspaper). Cob Connection provided an in-school job training program with farming and cob building as essential components of the curriculum. During our fourth year, Cob Connection officially became a 501c3 and saw a significant expansion when the YMCA and Centro San Bonifacio provided twelve city lots for urban agriculture development and natural building construction as a teen job training program. Twenty CPS teens and four staff members worked together producing enough food to provide six households and one restaurant with a grocery bag full of fresh produce on a weekly basis.