Clay Oven Building
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09:30 - 16:00 Tutor: Dr. Sara Collins Lunch and refreshments included "Everything about the course was excellent - thoroughly enjoyed it, and the food!"
"I loved this workshop and am very proud of the pizza oven I built in my garden with the skills I learnt!" |
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ABOUT THE COURSE
Learn the techniques to build a clay pizza oven on this course 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. From puddling clay to constructing the oven you will get hands on with all stages of this eco building technique. If you aspire to have a pizza oven in your garden or school, this course will teach you everything you need to know to make your dream a reality. You will also learn how to cook on our pizza oven at the centre and enjoy a delicious pizza lunch.
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.
- A booklet to take home: "How to build a pizza oven and impress your friends!"
- 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
- Drinks flask/water bottle
- Camera
- Notebook
This course takes place outdoors, with marquees set up for shelter on rainy days.
- Stout footwear/wellies
- Drinks flask/water bottle
- Camera
- Notebook
This course takes place outdoors, with marquees set up for shelter on rainy days.
ABOUT THE TUTOR
Sara is a Forest School Practitioner working with urban children in Portsmouth to reconnect primary school children with the natural world. She is a biologist by training (her PhD is in forest entomology) and discovered Forest School while on a career breaking looking after her baby son. She set up Eco Urban Ranger in 2010 and works with a number of schools in the Portsmouth area. As part of her commitment to high quality outdoor work she is an Accredited Practitioner of the Institute for Outdoor Learning and co-founder and lead of the Nature Premium Campaign – calling for the government to guarantee regular and ongoing nature experiences for all children and young people. Sara counts herself lucky to work with Portsmouth schools that are committed to teaching their children in a creative way. Learning how to build a clay oven was part of an ambition to ‘grow a loaf of bread’ in school to help reconnect the children with food production. Nobody said how large the loaf was going to be, so together with the children she grew wheat and built a clay oven on the school site. Following this experience, she built another clay oven in her back garden so that she could experiment with clay oven cooking. She still thinks about the pizza she made during her clay oven building course, it was the best pizza she has ever eaten. 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.
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Check Out Accommodation
You can get 10% discount when you stay with us during your course for 2 nights or more in our campsite or eco lodge. Please call us on 01730 823166 to make your accommodation booking. Our reception is open Monday to Friday, 9am - 5pm.
