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Kiko Denzer’s current schedule of events for the 2011 season:
Oven (and other) Workshops
Ovens and Bread, with Kiko Denzer and Hannah Field:
April 15 & 16, Oven Workshop for La Casa Verde, celebration of Green Building, in McMinnville, Oregon. Learn how to build your own super-insulated, wood-fired, earthen oven. And help provide McMinnville with a community oven that will be available to anyone wanting to host a community bake or private pizza party. Contact kkann (at) cellarridge (dot) com.
June 4-5, Earth and Fire (ovens, heaters, homes, etc.). Not a workshop per se, but a chance to see a demo and learn more about wood-fire, heating, cooking, etc. We’ll be one of several hundred exhibitors/workshops at the fairground in Puyallup WA, where Mother Earth News is putting on a Sustainability Fair. For more info, goto the Mother Earth News site.
September 15-17, Oven-building at The Kneading Conference West, a gathering of locally-minded bakers, millers, growers, and oven builders in the Skagit Valley, WA. info/register at their website.
OTHER WORKSHOPS with Kiko Denzer (Yurts, cob, “primitive” skills, etc.)
Complete Cob: May 21 – 29 2011, at the North American School of Natural Building in Coquille, OR (w/Deanne Bednar). 9 days; all aspects of cob, including arches, details, shelving, furniture, floors, walls, doors, windows, roofing, foundations, siting, design and ornament. You’ll leave confident enough to build a cob building of your own. (I did!) (I’m told this is already full, but check the cob cottage co. website for other courses, or call them at 541-396-1825)
July 18 – 22, Echoes in Time, near Salem, Oregon. A week of hands-on learning-by-doing: everything from felting to flint-knapping, fire-making, cordage, hunting/gathering, bows & arrows, atlatls, etc. Too much fun. I might be doing some spoon and other green-wood carving, but mostly, I’m planning on making things and having a good time. For dates and details, go their site.
August 15-19, A Simple Yurt at Aprovecho Research Center, in Cottage Grove, Oregon (Sticks and stones / make the bones / the skin is made / of mud!) Traditional yurts are big collapsible, portable baskets covered in woolen felt. This one, however, will be permanent, and covered with a durable, insulating, earthen “fabric” made of mud, vegetable fiber, and lime. With a simple, layered, fabric roof, it makes a quick, efficient, inexpensive, and eminently practical shelter. This workshop makes up one week of a seven week sustainable building course that promises to be both inspiring and useful. For more info or to register, go here.
TBA earthen floor: At some point, we’re going back to the yurt we built with Bill Coperthwaite at the Ancient Arts Center, to play with mud and lay an earthen floor in that building. If you’d like to get in on that, let me know and I’ll make sure to notify you; in Lobster Valley, OR.
