Did you know that the EPACS garden has an oven? We have a beautiful earthen or 'cob' oven made of clay dug from the garden, sand & straw. You can read more about cob here -- it's a wonderful natural building material.
At the beginning of November, I partnered with the EPACS Wellness educator, Cristina Cortez, and the wonderful team that she is a part of from Stanford's Early Life Stress and Anxiety Program (a part of Stanford University School of Medicine & funded by the Tipping Point Community) to host a big Garden Pizza Party. We fired up the cob oven for the occasion! It takes a couple hours for the oven to get really hot. After it was nice & hot, we moved the coals out of the way to make room for cooking the pizzas.
Students, family members, teachers & staff came out to make pizzas, grind wheat berries into flour, decorate candles, and make lavender play dough. It was quite the party! The awesome Susty after school program contributed a delicious tomato-kale pizza sauce and silky whole-wheat pizza dough. The party was lots of fun, very tasty & a big success!
