Where: Women’s Environmental Institute
When: August 7-9, 2009 / Fri Eve (starts at 4:00 p.m.) & 9-5 Sat & Sun.
Level: beginners.
Cost: $200 per person. Includes organic breakfast & snacks, provided lunches, copy of The Bread Builders: Hearth Loaves & Masonry Ovens and bread recipes. Learn how to make your own bread, pizza and other baked goods in your own outdoor wood-fired bread oven.
Registration printable form. Register on-line.
Help WEI build its new oven and learn how to build your very own outdoor bread oven at the same time. Wood-fired masonry ovens have been made popular by Alan Scott in his co-authored book The Bread Builders: Hearth Loaves and Masonry Ovens. Using Scott’s techniques, join in the construction of building oven walls with firebrick, calculating and building the dome, and finishing the front with decorative brick. Written instructions and photos will be given for building the foundation, hearth slab, block walls, and ideas for finishing the exterior. Join in a field trip Saturday night to see the instructor's finished oven and make pizza in the oven. Stay-over rooms are available at the WEI Eco Retreat Center at special reduced rates. Limited camping may be available at WEI by prior arrangement or in the Wild River State Park (with a prior reservation,1-866-85PARKS 8 am-8pm).
Instructor Bio: Darrold Glanville's love of bread making grew out of his interest and training in the Alan Scott method for building outdoor bread ovens. An artisan bread master, Darrold operates his own outdoor wood-fired bread oven at his home in rural North Branch and is an emerging proprietor of a local small-scale home-based flour mill where he fresh grinds his own flour, often using organic grains. Visit his website at: www.sunriseflourmill.com
For more information, call 651.583.0705.
