Clay Oven Building

​£100 
​09:30 - 16:00
Tutor: Dr. Sara Collins
Lunch and refreshments included

Saturday 4th April 2020
​FULLY BOOKED

Sat 6th June 2020 - ​Fully Booked - Postponed

Saturday 11th July 2020 - FULLY BOOKED

Saturday 12th Sept 2020 - Bookings on hold

Everything about the course was excellent - thoroughly enjoyed it, and the food!

​Social distancing measures due to Corona virus may mean this course will not go ahead on this date, so bookings are currently on hold. Please do join the waiting list, to keep update on new course dates.

​ABOUT THE COURSE                                        

Learn the techniques to build a clay oven at our beautiful site in the Hampshire South Downs. Participants will learn how to construct the oven from builder’s sand, clay, wood shavings and bricks. The course includes a pizza meal cooked in a completed cob oven. 

THE COURSE WILL GIVE YOU

• ​Understanding of the process of making a clay oven.
• Experience of the techniques needed to construct a clay oven.
• Knowledge on how to use a clay oven to cook pizza.
• The final step will involve making pizza and cooking it for lunch in the Sustainability Centre’s completed clay oven so you will get to experience how it all works and the delicious food you can make in a clay oven!
• A risk assessment and guidance notes will be provided to help any education providers who wish to run this as an activity with one of their groups.

THE COURSE IS SUITABLE FOR

Anyone wishing to build their own oven in their back garden, school or project site.

WHAT TO BRING

​ - Old working clothes to get dirty in!
 - Stout footwear/wellies
 - Camera
 - Notebook
This course takes place outdoors, with marquees set up for shelter on rainy days.

ABOUT THE TUTOR

Sara has built clay ovens in back gardens and with school groups in school grounds. She remembers the first pizza she tried that was cooked in a clay oven as the best pizza she has ever eaten. Sara is an experienced Forest School Practitioner, a biologist by training (her PhD is in forest entomology) and is an Accredited Practitioner of the Institute for Outdoor Learning.  She is also a volunteer Director of the Forest School Association. Sara says: "There is something about the simplicity of cooking in a clay oven, the wood, the fire, fresh air and good company that makes for a relaxed and enjoyable experience."

Check Out Accommodation 

You can get ​20% discount on accommodation when you stay with us during your course. Use the discount code: stay-with-us