Cob Oven Workshop

Cob Ovens have been used for thousands of years. They have been the hearth that brought people together to celebrate their harvests and connect with each other.

Our intention is to share how to create your own unique Cob Oven to support connection and learn how to utilize the elements Mother Nature so generously offers us.

Cob is a mixture of clay, sand, water and fiber (straw, dried grass, etc) used to build structures like houses and wood fired cook stoves and ovens.

It’s easily available, inexpensive, durable, fire resistant, and fun to work with.

By the end of the course, you’ll be able to create your own wood fired cob oven.

Benefits of Cob Ovens:

Regenerative

-Made from natural materials; require little to no fossil fuels

-Reduce your carbon footprint; the materials are bio-degradable so they will return to the earth after many years of use.

-Reuse & Repurpose materials like glass bottles

-Reduce consumption by making use of materials that you already have access to instead of buying a wood burning stove for instance.

Community

-Encourages gathering of family, friends and neighbors. Sharing connection and  co-creating delicious food

-Creativity you can cook a variety of dishes especially with a rocket stove design and metal surface. Potentially being able to bake, grill, roast and boil.

-Connection to the land- Honoring the Earth. Learning how to utilize the tools natures gives us. Cooking food like our ancestors once did connects us deeper to sense of thriving not just surviving.

More benefits

-Low cost materials or possibly free

-Amazing workout. As you’re building this structure you’re also building muscle and endurance.

-Anyone can do it and go at your own pace

-Another excuse to play in the dirt!

-Cob is an excellent medium for sculpting.

-Endless possibilities for your inner artist to create!

-Contact with the Earth is grounding and revitalizing for mind, body and soul.

-You can apply the foundational skills you learn to creating other structure and even your own earthen home!

-Gain a deep sense of accomplishment and confidence of what your capable of creating with nature!

-Build bonds and create lasting memories

Course Instructor: Tim DeLorey, a permaculturist and feral scientist from Joshua Tree, California. Tim has worked with earthen building materials (cob, super-adobe and strawbale) since 2013 and recently with bamboo.

What’s Included: 2 day Workshop, shared lodging Friday and Saturday nights and vegetarian meals (private lodging and couples discount available, see options listed below for details).

Worktrade opportunity (after workshop): To finish and sculpt the cob oven/bench into EcoMaste’s Toucan. One week minimum. Please contact us info@ecomaste.com 

15% Discount if paid in Bitcoin.