Bread ovens
Anita’s bread oven, Nailsworth, UK
Emerson College, West Sussex, UK
My first two bread ovens were built at the Olympia Waldorf School with children (and parents) in class 3. We built a whole bakery in fact in the kindergarten playground for the children to fire their imaginative play when the oven was not being stoked. Perhaps I will find some photographs…
I built my next bread oven with 10 Foundation Year Programme students at Emerson College in Sussex, England. We designed and built the oven, roof and patio in the winter which proved quite a challenge for our Ugandan students who had difficult time keeping warm in the process of playing with cob (clay subsoil, sand and straw) in the damp English winter. nevertheless, it was a fabulous creative process and led to many Art of Baking Bread workshops at Emerson, pizza parties and still serves the community at Emerson to this day.
Wynstones School, Gloucestershire, UK
Hereford School, Herefordshire, UK
Olympia, Washington, US
I used to have a lovely country home in Olympia Washington where I built a 6 loaf bread oven under two large fir trees. The oven blended in well in the transition between house and garden and added a lovely element of whimsy to the yard. This oven was crafted with the help of my house mates Elinor and Wes with assistance from Ruth Peterson’s third grade at the Olympia Waldorf School. I baked in this oven weekly and invited many friends to join in for pizza festivals.