We love cooking all kinds of dishes in wood-fired ovens! Along with making some of the best pizza and bread; cooks can also roast meats and vegetables, make hearty stocks, delicious pots of beans, your family’s favorite pies, grill, sauté, dehydrate and so much more. Here are some photos and videos of a recent trip back to Bali to cook in a wood-fired oven which we built in 2012.
A few friends and colleagues suggested we try a testimonial page! Here are a few responses we have received in regards to working and learning with Eva. Thanks everybody! TESTIMONIALS “Eva is fluent with her materials and in my experience her expertise is not just in craft but also in teaching. She is warm,
LEARN HANDS-ON HOW TO FINISH WALLS WITH NATURAL MATERIALS! In this informative course you will learn how to source, prepare and apply natural ingredients to make many beautiful finishes. These techniques can be applied to a variety of surfaces including cob and straw-bale buildings, cement, brick, wood, even drywall and latex paint! Homeowners, interior decorators
In March and April of 2015, Eva led the finishing of a cob cottage at Deck Family Farm. The clay, straw, wood, manure, and milk for these finishes all came from onsite at this beautiful 320-acre organic farm in Oregons Willamette Valley. The main construction of this building was designed and led by Ali Maggio
In 2011, I taught a 3 week workshop and gave a presentation at the Natural Building Extravaganza in NC. A student in the course, Max Livingstone, was intrigued by the pallet building projects I had worked on and consulted with me on how to build his own. In 2015, after Livingstone had completed the main
The new Rocket-Fired Griddle Oven was built during the Natural Building Colloquium at the Black Range Lodge in Kingston, NM. The Griddle Oven was designed by Flemming Abrahamson of Fornyet Energi and built in a workshop led by Flemming and Max Edleson of Firespeaking. The Griddle Oven features a rocket-style combustion box which offers clean
We were very happy to get hired by our neighbors Hal and Tonia of Big Bear Camp to lead a workshop to build a Barrel Oven. We took the opportunity to make our first glass door for the Barrel Oven Kit and are thrilled by the result. We think it speaks for itself…. CHECK OUT
We built this wood-fired earth oven at Wise Acres Farm, a beautiful place and home to Dr. Sharol Tilgner, author of Herbal Medicine from the Heart of the Earth! The beautiful brick oven base was built by Max and the earth oven project was led and finished by Eva during a workshop. The clay, sand
The Barrel Oven at Sweet Briar Farm! Jeanna and Sebastian got married this summer. We built this oven with them to be a part of their wedding celebration and for it live on to cook meals for their family and friends.
Sebastian and Jeanna are getting married! This oven will be a part of their wedding celebration and then will live on to cook meals for their family and friends. COME LEARN HOW TO MAKE A BEAUTIFUL AND EFFICIENT WOOD-FIRED OVEN, AT THIS BEAUTIFUL HOMESTEAD, IN WHICH TO BAKE DELICIOUS BREAD AND SO MUCH MORE! Join
A practical and wood-efficient oven built by hand from local clay, river sand and recycled red clay bricks. Project is evolving into a fully developed outdoor kitchen with counter tops, a wood-fired griddle, a sink and more! The whole area will be roofed as well. Stay tuned for more good times and stories of this
Eva led a workshop in April to build this oven at the Duckpond Pottery, Nick Friedman and Jennifer Kelly’s retail pottery shop and venue for live original music. Nick had an awesome idea to make an oven in the shape of a jazz hollow body guitar! We harvested clay from just down the street and
