Welcome to the most sustainable building project in Canada, the Eco-Sense home of Ann and Gord Baird. This tour will show the loadbearing cob wood working shop and the house that is in progress. The house is the first of its kind, engineered to be the first code approved high occupancy load bearing cob building in Canada. The tour will be hosted by Angela Evans of Saanich.

March saw the rain dissipate just long enough to fool us in
to putting our clothes on the line, pour the foundation, finish our irrigation
system, gather and de-nail 2000 linear feet of used lumber, terrace our
hillside and build all our raised beds including 28 yards of soil (approx.
8,640 shovel fulls) for our vegetable gardens, … oh and gather and clean “our

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