Create useful heat efficiently from local materials !

Tour the buildings & Stoves on site, Hands-on: mockup of combustion unit, mixing cob & finish plaster, make a model of an Earth Oven and a Rocket Cooker. Principles of construction, code.  Bring a bag lunch.

Also experience a Rumford Fireplace, Rocket Stove Cooker, and see Hay Box, Solar Oven and Earth Oven!

Saturday, January 25th  9:30a -5p

• Principles of Rocket Stove and Fire.
• Evolution of the use of fire
• Fire up Fire Devices on-sit e! Rocket Stove Mass Heater, Rocket Stove Cooker, Earth Oven, Rumford Fireplace.
• Mock-up of the Rocket Stove Combustion Unit, Outdoor, hands-on construction & firing.
• Make a Cob Block and see an Earth Plaster demo.

Sunday, January 26th  9:30a – 5p

• Lecture Class / Q&A : Design & Building principles of a basic Earth Oven
• Hands-on,: Construct  the basic dome of a 1/2 scale oven as a team,
• Cob Making:  Learn to identify earth, mix and apply a “Cob” mix.
• Demo of the insulation layer.
• Earth Oven – Fire it up and BAKE PIZZA for Lunch. at 1p.