Wild Culture Farm
Soquel, CA
April 2021
Quinta da Vida Beleza
São Miguel, Azores, Portugal
October/November 2020
Carrancas, Brazil Cob Oven & Bench Workshop
April 2018
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- Welcome…Bemvindos!
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- Sunrise Sunset
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- Carrancas Beauty
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- Carrancas Rivers
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- Host Maya
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- Daily Post-LunchTheory
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- Our mascot girl
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- Malu and Filipe work the rocks
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- Tire gravel foundation
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- Bottle Insulation goes in
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- hmmmm,which rock?
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- Foundaiton girls
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- Oven foundation
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- Giovaniiiii
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- A comida dos deuses
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- creamy slip samba
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- Brazilian legs!
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- Bench goin up
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- Giovaniiiii
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- Oven bricks
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- Sand Dome Beauty
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- Woohooo yeehhhh
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- First Layer of Oven
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- Plug that hole
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- Covering the insulation
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- Measuring door height
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- Tatty Feliz!
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- Adrenaline Rush Closing the Oven
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- Danteeeeee
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- Cut the door out
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- Levelling it
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- Priscillaaaaa feliz!
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- Ivan feliz
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- Paula feliz
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- The Beauty
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- Well done…Beleza!
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- Gorgeous Back of Oven by Lais
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- Happy Zoe and Couch Mosaic
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- Done!
Santa Cruz Cob Oven & Bench Workshop
September 2017
Ginetes Cob Oven Workshop, São Miguel, Azores
June 2017
Santa Cruz Cob Oven Workshop
February 2017
Fuerteventura Cob Oven Workshop
March 2015
Senegal Cob Oven/Bench Workshop
May 2015
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- Beautiful Flyer by Marga
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- The Majestic Baobab Tree
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- Beach in Toubab Dialaw
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- Daily Djembe Circle
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- Wash Day
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- Gareye cliffs
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- Beautiful Clay Pigments
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- Noungouma clay soil
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- Alphonse digging the clay soil out from Noungouma
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- Bringin’ in the supplies
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- Local reed straw
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- The insulating oven bricks they use here…kind of contradicting but perhaps appropriate for hot climates
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- Test Bricks
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- The Footprint is set
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- Sissy. Ousmane and Mbarou build the walls
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- Mbarou builds the foundation of laterite walls
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- Baye finishes the rock lining over the metal plate
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- The sand dome begins
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- Baye massages the beautiful sand dome
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- The clay oven shell is completed by all hands
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- The first batch of cob is always an amazing surprise
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- Mbarou & OUsmane bring on the jive
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- Azadey gets hooked
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- Lunch is always a welcome relief from the heat and sweat
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- The group evolves…
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- Dancin’ in th mud is ageless
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- Adama is blissed and Mbarou sports a facial
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- Azadey, Ousmane and Adama
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- All generations get their turn
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- Afidi & Fatime deepen their bond
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- Patrick & Samba do the cob thing
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- Mbarou focuses her inner artist on the African sun
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- The sculpting begins
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- Ghanaian Adinkra symbols for Harmony, Energy and Mother Earth
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- Benches & Oven ready for color
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- Natural clay pigments bring in the local shades
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- African Sun
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- Finished oven with local clay pigments
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- A New Cob Oven Family is Born in Senegal
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- Toubab Dialaw magical sunset
