Hello Ken:
My wife and I have a place up in Geyserville (a couple miles north of Healdsburg) and we are currently building a Casa 90 kit from Forno Bravo. We considered building our own brick oven from scratch after reading the excellent book "The Bread Builders" and then decided to go the kit route -- time and materials were way too overwhelming for us! We looked at several other kits on the market and then found Forno Bravo in our own backyard. Price and ease of construction were the keys. We are just about to pour the hearth slab and then move on to the oven stage. So far it has been a great experience although handling tons of block and mixing and pouring concrete is a little more challenging than I thought. If you need any sources for materials in the area, drop a line. We'd be happy to share them with you.
John & Leslie |