Posted May 17, 2013

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 […]

Posted October 1, 2012

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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