About this Place

Miguel Elliott has been a leader in the natural building movement for over 20 years. He started his Sonoma County based business/service Living Earth Structures in 2008 after spending years travelling around the world developing his skills and being inspired by different methods of building. He was knighted as “Sir Cobalot” with a special ceremony when he proclaimed his commitment to promoting natural building. He deeply believes in the importance of Earthen building and works to create opportunities for community involvement.
The Mission is to construct high quality living earth structures, such as cob benches, wood fired ovens, and adobe dome saunas encouraging community involvement through educational workshops and gatherings around the finished project, promoting a healthy, simple and creative lifestyle harmonious with the natural flow of creation. After spending over ten years of natural building in countries ranging from Argentina, Guatemala, Africa, Thailand and around the US, Miguel Elliott aka “Sir Cobalot” has brought his skills to his hometown of Petaluma, California, a town with a rich history of natural adobe building. Inspired and fascinated at an early age by the earthen ovens at General Vallejo’s old adobe home in Petaluma, Miguel now finds himself specializing in creating various living earth structures such as cob benches, cob ovens, adobe dome saunas and small huts. Miguel spent nearly 4 years at the Isis Oasis Retreat center in Geyserville, where he built the Hobbit Hut, Gingerbread House, and several other cob structures around the property.