Sustainability Skills School 2012!

Saturday Classes
Soap making
10-11:15
Cob oven cooking
11:30-12:45
Lunch
Candle making
1:45-3
$50.00

Sunday Classes
Cob plastering
10-11:15
Canning/preserving**
11:30-12:45
Lunch
Urban planting
1:45-3
$50.00

This year, we are pleased to present our first annual Sustainability Skills School! Each day includes three classes and lunch break for $50 a day. A weekend rate of $100 dollars includes both sets of classes and free camping. Lunch will be provided by the farm, though we do ask that you consider bringing a dish to share. There will be vegetarian friendly food available at no extra charge.

**Canning/preserving attendees need to bring: one large pot, one propane camp stove with two burners.

This post was submitted by Nicole Geiger.

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 eat a lot of great food! The routine will be similar as well!

Thursday night we will rendezvous at the site and set up our tents. Grab some food, a beer if you like,
and start getting to know one another. Friday morning we will kick off the fun and spend the next few days discussing all things cob while actually building ourselves an oven. Classroom instruction, practical application, fun, and food will be how we spend our short time together. Even though this is a short course you will walk away with a lot of applicable knowledge that we hope you take home and begin
applying immediately!

This post was submitted by Guy McBryde.

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 the better the outcome of getting it built in time!!

Itinerary:

On Friday we will build the base of the oven and benches using urbanite, rock and brick from local sources and a mix of Portland cement and local sand to mortar it together.
On Saturday we will build the oven and bench’s, we will also be having a pot luck lunch so bring what you like to eat, there will be plenty of cold water to drink!!
On Sunday we will be applying earthen plasters to the oven and applying any finishing touches needed.
Cob Ovens can cook anything that a conventional oven can this includes:

Cookies
Cakes
Pizzas
Breads
Pot Roasts
Baked Chickens
Muffins
Roasted Turkey
Veggie Souffle
Shepards Pies (meat and meatless)
Casseroles
You name it and it more than likely can be cooked in an earthen oven!

Tuition for this work shop is as follows:

$70 per person or $100 per couple (this covers all 3 days), kids under 16 are free and there will be activities for them to participate in!! We can have cob clay sculpting, adobe brick making (free to take home after) and clay face painting!!

This post was submitted by David Reed.

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 Lunch included.

This post was submitted by Indus Valley Sustainable Living Institute.

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 oven, constructed next to the artist studio, will be designed to bake fresh bread, pizza and other wood-fired delicacies. Querencia will be a whimsical, earth-friendly oasis designed to nurture the inner “creative”.

Cob Oven Workshop Announcement- pdf.pdf (210 KB)

This post was submitted by Beth and Tim Reese.

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)

This post was submitted by Marge Padgitt.

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.

This post was submitted by Rodger Lee.

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 the day, breakfast munchies and coffee will be provided.
8:30 am start cob oven build.
12:00 pm break for lunch, this is a potluck lunch so bring what you like!!.
1:00 pm return to oven build.

We should be wrapping up around 6 pm, during this build we will go over each step to creating a wonderful piece of art as well as a very efficient oven made from natural and recycled materials!!

Come and join us!!
There is a $20 per person suggested donation, very affordable for this wonderful workshop!!

David Reed
New Jura Natural Building
Texas Natural Builders
mudmaverick@newjurabuilding.info
8322438782

This post was submitted by David Reed.

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.

This post was submitted by Dana Jenks.

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: 818-834-7074

This post was submitted by Ray Cirino.