Tag Archive: cob oven

Instructor: Randy Mermel
Location: Angelic Organics Learning Center 1547 Rockton Rd Caledonia, IL 61011
Tuition: Price: $75.00 Actual costs of workshops are close to double our workshop fees. If you are able, please consider making an additional donation to help cover the full cost of your workshop.
http://www.learngrowconnect.org/node/2741

[ September 12, 2010; ] Come join us as we learn to build with cob, an age-old natural building technique with simple materials such as clay, sand, and straw. The emphasis will be on hands-on learning as we mix cob and earthen plaster, and provide you with the skills to build an oven in your own backyard. Class will [...]

Instructor: Diane Jennings
Location: Lexington, KY
Tuition: $39
http://www.disputantacob.com

[ September 18, 2010; ]

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 door

Instructor: Ian Miller
Location: Viroqua, WI
Tuition: $60
http://driftlessfolkschool.org/courses/earthen-bread-oven

[ June 26, 2010; ] Earthen ovens are made out of a mixture of clay-soil, sand, sawdust, straw and firebrick. They’re simple, low-cost and fun to build. After taking this workshop, you’ll soon be baking your own wood-fired bread and pizza in your beautiful new work of art! This one-day workshop will cover earthen oven construction from start to finish. [...]

Instructor: Michael G. Smith
Location: Emerald Earth, Northern California
Tuition: $60 by August 16; $75 thereafter
http://www.emeraldearth.org/

[ September 11, 2010; 9:00 am to 6:00 pm. ] (9am to 5pm)

Learn to build your own wood-fired oven from inexpensive natural materials including clay, sand, straw, and bricks. An earthen retained heat oven can be built in a day for less than $100 and will give you years of fun and the best pizza ever. Prized by bakers for making crunchy, chewy crust, these [...]

Instructor: Bernhard Masterson
Location: Cottage Grove, Oregon
Tuition: $250
http://www.bernhardmasterson.com

[ August 20, 2010 to August 22, 2010. ] Would you like to connect to your cooking in a more profound way? Embrace our instinctive relationships with, earth, water, air, fire, and food to create artisan breads, pizza, stews, roasts and joy in an earthen oven. Get the benefits and exceptional baking of commercial ovens at a fraction of the cost. [...]

Instructor: Max Vittrup Jensen, and Carrie Campbell/Sara Tommerup
Location: Zensee, 90 km N-E of Berlin, Germany
Tuition: From 375 to 525 Euro
http://nbnetwork.org/4753

[ June 16, 2010 to June 23, 2010. ] We’ll be building a Rumford fireplace as well as a rocket mass oven with a heated bed and bench at an amazing beautiful location in the forest by Zensee, some 90 km from Berlin. We’ll also make an earthen bread/pizza oven, start a cob structure and likely some initial layers for an earthen floor.

The workshop [...]

Instructor: Diane Slutzky and Ryan Deuschle
Location: Evergreen, CO
Tuition: $650

[ July 31, 2010 to August 8, 2010. ] Join Diane Slutzky and Ryan Deuschle in the building of a cob courtyard bench with fireplace and cob oven. Over the course of 8 days you will learn the basics of building with cob, dry stacking stone or urbanite, plastering, and how to construct a roof to cover the bench and oven. The workshop will [...]

Instructor: Sasha Rabin
Location: Berkeley, CA
Tuition: 150
http://verticalclay.com

[ July 24, 2010 to July 25, 2010. ] Learn to build your own earthen bread and pizza oven using natural materials from your backyard. Using wood, stone, clay and straw, we will explore the entire construction process from foundation to roof. Class sessions will be comprised of hands-on construction, lecture, and presentations covering building fundamentals that include structure, moisture protection, materials selection, heating [...]

Instructor: Ashely Schenk and Ben Graham
Location: Yestermorrow Design/Build School
Tuition: $300
http://

[ May 8, 2010 to May 9, 2010. May 8, 2010 9:00 pm to May 9, 2010 9:00 pm. ] Start Date / End Date:: 5/08/10-5/09/10Mud, earth, clay, soil – an awesome and versatile building material which can act as a thermal battery, holding heat. People have used this technology for thousands of years to bake bread and other staples. Today wood-fired earthen ovens are seen as an appropriate technology in an increasingly over-complicated world. [...]

Instructor: David Reed
Location: Huntsville Texas
Tuition: $100
http://www.offgridhomesteading.com

[ March 28, 2010; ]

Hey guys, David here with New Jura Natural Building. I am pleased to announce our first cob workshop of the new year!!!

In collaboration with Dan Phillips and The Phoenix Commotion, we will be holding a cob oven workshop March 28th in Huntsville Texas at the world famous Bone House.

Earthen ovens are simple, low-cost and fun [...]

Instructor: Taylor Starr and James Haim
Location: Williams, OR
Tuition: $320
http://www.whiteoakfarmcsa.org

[ May 6, 2010 to May 9, 2010. ] Start Date / End Date:: May 6/May 9

Join us this Spring as we sculpt a small cottage in the woods. In this weekend workshop you will have the opportunity to get your hands (and feet) dirty mixing and building with cob, stacking straw bales, and making and applying earthen plasters. Lectures and discussions will also [...]