Thurlton Primary build a cob oven

Digging holes, dancing on mud and getting covered in clay - building a pizza oven at school is a memorable experience for children. The pupils at Thurlton were great fun to work with and we hope they enjoy cooking the food they grow in their school grounds, in their new earthen oven! They designed it all themselves, and built it themselves - we just helped them make it happen!

If your school want to build a pizza oven and learn about sustainable building workshops we do, call me (Charlotte) on 07766 220526.

New dates added for our build a earthen/ cob pizza oven courses

Lots of you have been in touch asking when we're putting the rest of our summer dates for courses on the website. Well we've done it at last! See www.edwardscobbuilding.com and go to the courses page and scroll down to see all the pizza oven course dates for June, July, August, September and October. Here's a lovely oven made by some cobbers on one of our workshops recently.

Ellingham Primary School get cobbing

Ellingham Primary School in South Norfolk already have several Green Flags - they're an impressive Eco School. And I had the pleasure of working with their Year 5/6 class last week - making cob, learning more about sustainable building and creating cob sculptures. The pupils were a joy to meet - so good at digging and mixing the cob and so friendly and enthusiastic. The picture below shows pupils mixing the cob themselves. You can't spot them in this picture, but wondering around the school grounds were several school chickens! Thanks Ellingham for a great time!

Owl class build a cob pizza oven with us

The pupils from Owl Class at Thompson Primary School in South Norfolk built this marvellous wood fired earthen oven with us last week. Can you tell what it is?! The children were so enthusiastic and natural cob dancers - we hope they enjoy many mouthwatering pizzas from their new oven, for years to come. If looked after properly, their oven should last indefinitely. A teacher at the school is going to build a little shed roof over it to protect it and add a lime render for extra protection. If you build a cob oven though and you don't want to bother with a roof, just wrap a tarps around it when you're not using it and it'll be fine.