Ianto Evans

Ianto Evans is an applied ecologist, landscape architect, inventor, writer, and teacher, known for his work building, writing and teaching about natural building and cob. Originally from Wales, Evans attended architecture school in the 1960s. With Linda Smiley, Evans built what may have been the first cob house in North America after researching cob structures in the British Isles. They moved into the cottage in 1989. They joined with Michael Smith to establish the Cob Cottage Company in 1993. They also founded the North American School of Natural Building and innovated a distinctive "Oregon Cob" method, hosting numerous workshops on the technique.

Evans was director of Aprovecho's Fava Bean Project, in Cottage Grove, Oregon, where he worked to adapt fava beans to American climates. As a permaculturalist, he also developed a polyculture planting technique. Evans also designed the rocket mass heater.

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