Cob Oven Workshop with Ben Loescher

cob oven

Don’t miss this chance to learn how to make your own cob oven! Ben led the class the built the oven in our backyard (pictured above). Here’s the 411:

Ben Loescher will conduct a 4-day hands-on workshop this June, to teach you how to make your own earthen oven. Ben has built dozens of these ovens, and has great expertise in both adobe construction and earthen plasters and finishes. You will leave the class with the knowledge necessary to build an oven of your own, with materials that you may already have in your yard.

What Will I Learn?

  • Local considerations and the siting for your earthen oven
  • Soil and material selection, sourcing and testing
  • Foundations and oven base design and materials
  • Sizing
  • Sand Form and Oven Domes
  • Natural oven plasters and finishes
  • Firing and baking in your oven

4 Days: June 6, 7, 13, 14
Saturdays, 9am-4pm.
Sundays, 1pm-4pm.

Early-bird tuition $175

Register after May 15 $200

In Westchester/Los Angeles 90045 at the Community Garden at Holy Nativity:
6700 W. 83rd Street

Register at:
www.change-making.com/cob-oven-workshop/

Ben Loescher is a licensed architect, principal of Loescher Meachem Architects, and founder of AdobeIsNotSoftware, an organization which was founded in 2009 to inform, enable and advance adobe construction in California, and educate the public in the building and conservation of adobe structures.

This will be a hands-on, get-dirty workshop. Please wear clothes that you don’t mind getting really muddy, wear closed-toed shoes, and bring sun protection.

Coffee and nibbles will be provided at the beginning of each day. Please bring your own lunch.