Cob/earth house and Permaculture. Any experience?

Any one have any experience with building cob houses or starting a permaculture setup from scratch?

My husband and I inherited 18 acres of land in NE ohio and want to farm on it. Ya know, the whole off-the-grid dream, but beyond watching a few documentaries we are kind of at a loss. Got Gaia's Garden and the new Sepp Holzer book out of the library and downloaded Permaculture 2 and The Cobb Builders Handbook.

We are expecting to take until spring toresearchand save up money to build. I'm guessing the house is probably going to cost 3-8k depending on how much technology I want to put in it. Then I am praying that we could get it done in the late spring to early fall season before it starts to frost too bad. Is this realistic? So far it's just my husband and I unless somehow I can swindle people to help

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!!

updated by @aya-heartright: 01/13/15 09:34:37PM

i have no information to help you but i must say i'm so jealous! not a lot of people have the ability to do this. i know i don't. i've wanted a yurt for years but land here in california is so expensive. good luck to you and keep us posted on your progress. i'll just live vicariously though your adventure:)

thats awesome. unfortunately i dont i know anything either!