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- *WAITLIST* for Learn to Build an Earth Oven with Kiko Denzer!!
*WAITLIST* for Learn to Build an Earth Oven with Kiko Denzer!!
Build Your Own Earth Oven ~ Natural Building Event!!!
Saturday April 20th from 10am-4pm/5pm
*** THIS WORKSHOP IS FULL ~ SEND US AN EMAIL TO JOIN THE WAILIST and TO RECEIVE UPDTES ABOUT MORE NATURAL BUILDING EVENTS***
Want to build your own wood-fired oven? Feeling daunted by cost or lack of experience? Want to learn more about building with natural materials (aka cob, or adobe)? Join us on the 20th when we'll gather with friends and neighbors to go through all the steps involved in building a wood-fired oven out of the earth underfoot.
We will meet at Springs Farm in Guilford Vt, and will send you all details after your registration. Please note, it is a suggested $40-$60 for the day, and *you can email us to ask for a sliding scale*.
The materials and process make it inexpensive, but the design and performance equals a custom-built or pre-fab brick oven. We will work together, hands on, to identify good material, use simple tools and fun exercise to mix it up, (barefoot, yum!), then shape it, insulate it, plaster it, and heat it up for cooking! From fuel to fire to storing heat, we'll also cover all the basics of burning -- not only for cooking, but also for increasing the comfort of your home. Each small team will have the experience of making a complete mini oven. Then you can go home and your own!
Kiko Denzer learned to build with mud about 30 years ago, from Ianto Evans (aka "the cob-father," and author of The Hand Sculpted House), who launched a first world revival of earthen, or cob building, and helped shape what is now called "natural building." The root work, however, seeks to free people from their dependence on our destructive culture of consumption, and re-connect them to the land and to each other. Kiko went on to build his own oven, home, and life, wrote Build Your Own Earth Oven as a little how-to manual, and continues to try and help people remember their creative birthrights, so we can engender cultures that feed the beauty that feeds us.