WHO

Robin Hood Community Garden – Cob oven

THE BRIEF

An area of the garden was cleared of brambles to create a social space to encourage more users and create a safe cooking space for local gardeners and residents.

Participants learned how to:

• Make foundations using recycled crushed concrete found onsite.

• Make clay mortars and build a brick plinth.

• Build an arch using engineering bricks

• Identify different bricks and their uses in construction

• Make insulating layers using recycled materials such as sawdust

• Make cob

• Build an oven

• Make clay based renders

• Fire and cook in a cob oven