[ November 6, 2010; November 13, 2010; ] Make your own efficient, elegant, and affordable wood-fired heater. Instructors Ernie and Erica share their extensive experience researching, building, and living with earthen masonry stoves.
[ October 15, 2010 to October 17, 2010. ] 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 [...]
[ July 24, 2010 to July 25, 2010. ] Rocket mass heaters are, simply put, the natural building version of a masonry heater (aka Finnish stove or Kachelofen). In a weekend, we’ll take clay, sand, straw, sawdust, firebrick and a few old steel drums and turn them into a super-efficient wood-burning stove that stores almost all the heat from combustion in a bench or [...]
[ 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 [...]
