Wood Oven Construction

Global Gardens students at Parks Elementary build earthen oven

A group of students helped complete an outdoor wood-burning oven composed almost entirely of earthen materials Tuesday.

The oven is at Rosa Parks Elementary School, 13702 E. 46th Place, in a communal garden next to the school's main building that is cared for by students participating in the summer Global Gardens program.

In the past, staff members cooked lunch for students on a single hot plate. This summer, they began to wonder if there was an easier solution, program art director Annie Ferris said.

"It took hours to cook enough food for all of us on a little hot plate, and we were just tired of it," she said. "So we started brainstorming."

In the end, the solution came from a student.

Fifth-grader Romaldo Galariz was born in Mexico, and he said that in his time there his family had used an earth oven to cook enchiladas, tamales, bread and "lots of other things."

When staff members asked the children for ideas, Romaldo said he remembered his past experiences and spoke up.

"We decided we should do something that was easy and fast to cook in, so I just got the idea to make an earth oven," Romaldo said.

After staff members researched the endeavor, construction on the oven began June 6, with both staff members and students taking part, garden educator Maggie Regan said.

"We didn't know a lot about the process going into it, but (the students) just caught on right away," she said.

The oven was constructed on a 3-foot-tall cylinder of bricks from alternating layers of a soil, a water and hay mixture called cob, and newspapers, fifth-grader Erendira Romero said.

"We put dirt and water together and mixed it with our feet and then added hay," Erendira said.

"We put a mound of sand on top of the bricks to make the shape of the oven, then we made patties and put them on top of each other to make it thick."

After layering the cob patties, the only tasks remaining before the oven can be used are to remove the sand from inside the now-formed oven and cure it, Ferris said.

After the oven is fire-cured, it will be used by staff members to prepare lunches for the program's children gardeners for the rest of the summer.

The Global Gardens program is intended to empower low-income students by allowing them to tend both communal and personal gardens, Ferris said.

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