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