Our Spring 2026 schedule is now live!
What is Mud Dauber School?
We are located in Snow Camp, NC, where we have been involved in natural building projects for more than 15 years.
We met and began building with cob together in 2009; in the years after, Greg was busy with contract work and instructing workshops, while Danielle built her own cob house. After starting a family and purchasing our current property in the NC Piedmont, we lived for two years in Danielle’s tiny cob house while building what is now our straw bale home!
The Mud Dauber School campus shares land with our homestead. We began running natural building workshops here in 2014, and have co-created with our students a series of natural demonstration cottages, garden walls, and community spaces. With each new season, we continue to work on our campus, building new spaces and finishing old ones.
Our mission is to empower people by teaching them the skills of natural building. We believe in the effectiveness of hands-on learning, and we make that our focus. We also recognize the importance of community, and weave this belief into our workshop format through shared meals, cob oven pizza parties, and emphasizing a team approach on the worksite.
We continue to be inspired by all of the people who join us here each year, and feel deeply satisfied to be part of the natural building world.
-Greg and Danielle
