A couple of weeks ago, Mike and I ran a workshop here in my backyard in Durham. It was a great success! We hadn't run one since 2009, and weren't sure how the urban setting was going to work out, in regards to fostering the right atmosphere for a cob workshop (comfortable, peaceful, inspiring, beautiful, etc...). We had 3 people camping in the backyard, which made for a very real and enjoyable sense of community through the mornings and into the evenings. The rest of the students commuted…