GAN academy work day and cob oven

[Hannah Thomas]

Hi folks,

The GAN academy, who built the patio last year at ECO, are coming back this year to help out with a project, and the project that rose to the top of the list after a group meeting in March was building a cob oven. Laura from the Boston Food Forest Coalition has found a cob oven design that works in Vermont well. Here is the link: http://thecobovenproject.blogspot.com/

We need to think about where exactly to site it - there are considerations such as needing to dig into the soil quite a bit - five feet wide I think.

What reflections do you all have on the proposed design, and where do you think that we should site it?

Please respond by the end of this week with your thoughts so that we can think about how to proceed. 

Additionally, is anyone from the group interested and available to work with the GAN students to help build the oven, show them the garden on May 22, 23 or 24?

Yay for building projects!

Hannah

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Hannah Thomas, Ph.D.

Cell: 207 409 3615
E-mail: hth...@brandeis.edu

[Kokoro Bensonoff]

the cob oven on the link Laura shared looks pretty small. I like the design. It looks neat. But it might actually be the right size for the amount of time and labor is put into and also the amount of space there are at ECO. In terms of the placement, I like it to be on the patio or between the patio and the shed where the plants growing right now in the back by the fence. If we put it right up to the edge of the patio, and face it toward the patio, we can still have plants growing around it.

I can't come help on those days since the GAN group come in the middle of the days as opposed to in the morning or late afternoon.

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Kokoro