04Nov

BRICKS TO BREAD FEATURED IN THE TICO TIMES YET AGAIN!

Check out the second article The Tico Times posted about Bricks to Bread! The Tico Times is Costa Rica’s national newspaper published in English for all English speaking and ex-patriots. Pretty cool! That’s one sweet oven!

25Jul

Bricks to Bread Featured in the Tico Times!

Check out the article The Tico Times just posted! Featuring Bricks to Bread!

09Oct

Tropical Storm Nate

We have more news from Costa Rica about the effects of Tropical Storm Nate on our Bricks to Bread families. This summer we connected with two wonderful families about the possibility of building ovens at their homes. Daysi’s family lives in Heredia Province and has informed us that their home and town are doing well. […]

06Jul

Rising to the occasion: Minnesota Bricks to Bread builds ovens for Costa Rican families

By Kara Hildreth From the June 29th Farmington Rosemount Independent Town Pages A Minnesota dark volcanic stone embedded as a keystone serves as a reminder to one Costa Rican family of how love rose to the occasion. Their outdoor brick oven came to be built after a simple conversation between friends, Jeff Larson and Nancy […]

01Nov

Nonprofit Bricks to Bread Connects St. Louis Park and Costa Rican Village

BY Maggie Soucheray Sonnek From the November 2016 St. Louis Park Magazine issue From the moment I walked into the Alvarado house, I felt welcomed. The smell of percolating coffee on the counter, pictures of smiling faces covering the walls—I felt like I was walking into an old friend’s house, not someone I hadn’t yet […]

28Oct

Loaves of Love: A Mission to Change

October 28, 2016 by Mainstream Boutique The story of how one woman packed up her kids and comfortable city life and traded it in for a remote Costa Rican village, and how it has changed her life. Calm in the Chaos Warm, enticing scents of fresh baked bread, locally harvested honey and softened butter wait […]

17May

Brick by Brick – Firing Up Community

By North House Folk School There’s a wood-fired brick oven in Costa Rica, and the oven’s Lake Superior keystone isn’t its only connection with the North Shore. The oven was built last summer by North House students Jeff Larson and Nancy Alvarado. Nancy was a PeaceCorps volunteer in the rural village of San Marcos de […]

01Oct

Costa Ricans Grateful for Great Bread from New Brick Oven

By Nancy Lilienthal, Minnesota Energy Resources Senior External Relations Manager Jeff Larson recently co-led a team with friend Nancy Alvarado to raise funds and travel to Costa Rica to build a brick-and-concrete bread oven in the country’s northern rain forest. Nancy served in the Peace Corps in San Marcos de Cutris and had maintained contact […]

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