Our cob oven (pizza oven) at Beelarong Community Farm brings new meaning to the term “cooking from scratch”. First build your oven.
Mix a bucket full of clay – and continue to do so until you are completely surrounded by buckets of clay.
Then you throw the clay on the ground and you stamp on it to mix it with straw. Even better if you can find a friend to hang on to.
Bill decides to go it alone.
Pat decided to keep her ‘wellies’ on.
Then it’s back to childhood again as you shape the clay into ‘cobs’, sausage shaped bricks.
Then you slap it all together and you build an oven. (Well, doesn’t everybody!)
You congratulate yourself on a job well done.
And then you wait for three weeks for it to dry out. Waiting, waiting, waiting ……..
Then every so often you get together and you make pizzas. Out of the oven and onto your wooden board. Sprinkle with a few Sweet Basil leaves from the community garden.
Find a few friends. Start eating.
No wonder I have a smile on my face. This, folks, is where I have my allotment.
Happy Gardening.
Allotment Adventures with Jean 
Apr 17, 2016 @ 06:14:52
That looks like a very good way to spend time.
Apr 18, 2016 @ 04:39:58
It was great fun.
Apr 17, 2016 @ 23:17:01
Yummy Jean! Thanks for letting us in on the cob making oven 😃
Apr 18, 2016 @ 04:40:46
Your comment on my earlier post reminded me of the fun day we had actually building the oven.
Apr 18, 2016 @ 10:52:23
I watched Grand Designs where a gentleman built huge houses via the cob method. Amazing strength!
Apr 18, 2016 @ 04:56:06
Fresh veggies, excellent community and no snow. You have an excellent life Jean 🙂
Apr 18, 2016 @ 05:55:46
It’s pretty good Fran. All I have to do now is tackle that darn fruit fly!
Apr 21, 2016 @ 04:19:22
(Fingers crossed) that’s the only pest I don’t appear to have in Sanctuary ;). I have whitefly to spare if you would like me to send you some.