Tag Archive: cob oven

The Mud Taste Test

Instructor: Guy McBryde
Location: Lytle Loomis & HWY 120 Groveland, CA 95321
Tuition: $275
http://www.ederbickems.com

[ August 18, 2011 to August 21, 2011. ]

OK- we won’t be tasting mud but we will be trying our hands at all things cob related. This course will focus on building an oven and you will leave with the skills to build one of your own! And as with our longer eight day course, we will have a lot of fun and [...]

Texas Natural Builders along with The Last Organic Outpost and The Emile Street Community Farm presents a cob oven workshop!!!

Instructor: David Reed
Location: 711 N. Emile st., Houston Texas
Tuition: $70 per person $100 per couple
http://texasnaturalbuilders.info

[ June 3, 2011 to June 5, 2011. ] Texas Natural Builders along with The Last Organic Outpost and The Emile Street Community Farm presents a cob oven workshop!!!
Join us June 3rd, 4th and 5th as we build a covered cob oven along with built in benches!!

This is going to be a grand oven build and the more people we can get to help [...]

Cob Earthen Oven

Instructor: Priyanka Johri & Rodger Lee
Location: Houston, TX
Tuition: $50
http://www.indusvalleysustainablelivinginstitute.com/

[ May 1, 2011; ] Please join us to play with earth. Using nothing but clay, sand and straw we will build an Earthen Bread/Pizza Oven.
Please be prepared to get your hands and feet dirty. We will be kneading clay with bare feet and sculpturing the cob with hands.
Bring hat, work gloves, sun screen, water cantine, and sturdy shoes.
Light Vegetarian [...]

Cob Oven

Instructor: Sigi Koko
Location: Capon Bridge, West Virginia
Tuition: $95
http://www.buildnaturally.com/

[ May 7, 2011 to May 8, 2011. ] Roll up your sleeves, take off your shoes, and get your fingers and toes down in the mud! Taproot Farm is building a cob bread oven and you can join in!! Join us for this first in a series of 9 workshops to build “Querencia”, a strawbale/cob artist studio at Taproot Farm. The cob [...]

Bake Oven Workshop in Missouri

Instructor: Gene Padgitt and Gary Hart
Location: Cedar Hill, Missouri
Tuition: $159 for non-members, $99 for members Early Bird by May 15
http://www.chimkc.com

[ June 2, 2011 to June 5, 2011. ] Bake Oven Workshop
June 2-5, 2011, Cedar Hill, Missouri
Midwest Chimney Safety Council
Learn how to build a Cob oven and a brick bake oven with Gene Padgitt and Gary Hart. Hands-on. For more information visit www.mcsc-net.org or see the attached flyer.2011registration.pdf (1 MB)

Cob Oven Workshop

Instructor: Priyanka Johri/Rodger Lee
Location: Conroe / The Woodlands, TX
Tuition: $50
http://indusvalleyyoga.com

[ April 30, 2011; ] Using nothing but beautiful East Texas clay, sand, and straw we will build an Earthen Bread/Pizza Oven. Please be prepared to get your hands and feet dirty. We will be kneading clay with bare feet and sculpting the cob with our hands. Such fun!
Please bring a hat, work gloves, sunscreen, water canteen, and sturdy shoes.

Gonzales Cob Oven Workshop

Instructor: David Reed
Location: 12318 Rincon Houston, TX
Tuition: $20 donation suggested
http://newjurabuilding.info

[ April 23, 2011; ] New Jura Natural Building | Texas Natural Builders

We will be building a custom cob oven for John Gonzales, beer brewer extraordinaire!!!!

Cob ovens are great for the best pizza’s you will ever eat!!!!
just about anything you make in a conventional oven can be made in a cob wood fired oven!

Itinerary:

8:00 am meet for for overview of [...]

Cob Bread Oven Fundraiser

Instructor: Dana Jenks
Location: George Washington Carver School of Arts and Science at 10101 Systems Parkway, Sacramento, CA 95827
Tuition: Donations for electric car conversion project appreciated
http://www.jenks.us

[ April 9, 2011 to April 10, 2011. ] Freewill donation workshop in support of our electric car program. A vegetarian lunch and dinner are provided at this workshop where participants will learn about site planning, foundations, and will complete a cob bread oven except for plaster. Students will have skills to do their own small cob project.

Plastering the Rocket Oven

Instructor: Ray Cirino
Location: North Hollywood
Tuition: $40/day
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?id=1200454946&aid=2086501

[ March 19, 2011; ] 12 noon- 5:00pm

Now the fun finish is here to beautify the new rocket oven with the earth. We’ll be learning just how to go about this task and make it simple for all. We’ll be embedding river rocks in the top section to match the wide variety of colored stones at the base. Call: [...]

The New Rocket Oven Work Party

Instructor: Ray Cirino
Location: North Hollywood
Tuition: $40/day
http://people.tribe.net/raycirino/photos/ad44c02f-0ce3-41d5-bd43-f9549e6afbc6

[ March 12, 2011 to March 13, 2011. ]

Last week we were able to continue the next steps to a cleaner oven. It had rained two of the days, so we are rescheduling the workshop for this weekend. See things and learn what will be the start of many hybrid ovens and soon the rocket stove fireplace.

The New Rocket Oven Workshop

Instructor: Ray Cirino
Location: North Hollywood
Tuition: $40/day or $200 for six days
http://people.tribe.net/raycirino/photos

[ February 19, 2011 to March 6, 2011. February 26, 2011; February 27, 2011; March 6, 2011; ] The New Rocket Oven Workshop
S t a r t   t o   f i n i s h

What: A start to finish workshop series that will teach you the mechanics of rockets stoves, basics of oven construction, cob building, and earthen plastering. We will complete the series by firing up the rocket oven and [...]

Cob Pizza / Bread Oven

Instructor: Diane Jennings
Location: Lexington, KY
Tuition: $59 Two month advance discount price only $39.50
http://www.disputantacob.com

[ May 1, 2011; ] One of the great things about taking a cob oven workshop is the level of skill you can gain in just one day. Learn to mix and build with cob, a load-bearing, earthen material you can build your house with ‘dirt cheap.’ You can even make furniture, cabinets, sculptures and home decor out of cob!

During [...]

Pyromania! Rocket Mass Heaters and Earthen Ovens

Instructor: Ianto Evans
Location: Coquille, Oregon
Tuition: $240
http://www.cobcottage.com

[ March 25, 2011 to March 27, 2011. ] A weekend course for those in love with fire. Learn how fire burns, what makes combustion efficient, how to build the ultimate in snug, energy-saving campfires, stoves, and fireplaces for cooking and comfort, all hand-made at almost no cost.
Rocket Mass Heaters by Ianto Evans and Leslie Jackson has made these incredibly clean-burning wood burners big [...]

Cob Oven in Puerto Rico

Instructor: Scott Howard
Location: Puerto Rico
Tuition: $260
http://www.earthenhand.com

[ February 26, 2011 to February 27, 2011. ] Learn How to build an oven from mostly earthen materials in under two days! Learn the basics of Cob, earthen plasters, and earthen paints. Decorate the oven as a group artwork. Lectures and sideshows as well. Wonderful setting, nice people, great food.

Tuition includes everything except airfare.

Cob Pizza / Bread Oven, Lexington, KY

Instructor: Diane Jennings
Location: Lexington, KY
Tuition: $39 or $19.50 2 weeks in advance
http://www.disputantacob.com

[ October 17, 2010; ] Lexington, KY
October 17, 2010
Cob pizza/bread oven

During this workshop we will learn about the way an earthen mass oven works, how to choose the right ingredients for your cob, and ‘learn by doing’ as we build a cob oven:

- Lay firebricks
-.Build a form
- Mix fire cob & regular cob
- Build cob layers of oven
- Build the [...]

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