2025 Annual Meeting Workshops
April 7 -13, 2025
Wildacres Retreat
Little Switzerland, NC
Heaters
-Basic Heater with Jason Temple
-Advanced Heater with Eric Moshier
Ovens
-“Hammer & Trowel” Oven (basic) with Dave Zeltwanger
32” oven build with solid brick and refractory mortar using only hammer and trowel.
-Vault Oven (Advanced) with Pat Manly
-Cookstove with Aki Yoshimizu
-Wood-fired Copper with Bucky Black and Chris Prior
Colonial British and American water heating was often done in a "Copper". Our wood fired boiler is designed for modern cooking of a Cajun seafood boil or a Low Country boil. Traditionally a high BTU output of Propane would be used to return an 80-100 quart pot to a boil quickly after dropping 35-50 pounds of seafood into the highly seasoned cooking broth. We're going to do it with wood.
-Wood-fired Sauna with Albie Barden
-Building with Stone with Marinko Kordich
This is a brief introduction to the fundamentals of building with stone. We will briefly cover: different styles of stone, bonding, arches and lintels, and how to read the grain in the stone. The primary focus will be on hands-on application of the theoretical. We will: build with different types of stone, dry-stacked look vs. mortared, practice using chisels, and build an arch or two.
-Thin Stone Veneer with Dan Peltier
Auditorium & Classroom Presentations
-Chimney Dimensioning - Boris Kukolj
-Becoming a master in Germany - Jim Schmitz
-Hydronic Heating - Philipp Tinner
-Sketchup - Boris Kukolj
-Masonry Heater Basics and Theory - Derek Kowalchuk
Additional registration and fees apply
