Wood-fired Pizza and Flatbreads
with Bryce Johnson & Ross Safford
April 5, 2025 from 9 AM to 12 Noon
at Marine Mills Folk School
Pizza — it’s everybody’s favorite! In this class, you’ll learn a versatile pizza dough recipe and try out assorted toppings with instructors Bryce Johnson and Ross Safford. We’ll make and bake other flatbreads, all in a wood-fired pizza oven. If you have a pizza oven, you’ll learn new tricks. We’ll also give you tips on baking pizza and flatbreads in your indoor oven or on the grill. You’ll get your hands messy, have lots of fun, plus savor your creations before it’s all over.
Limited to 10 people
Class Fee: $65 (+$15 for materials); Total $80
Registration is through the Marine Mills Folk School. For details or to sign-up click here.
Bryce Johnson is a retired pastor. In 2010, he guided the White Bear Lake United Methodist Church to build a community bread oven. In retirement he has been making and selling bread at Farmers Markets and through his Community Supported Bakery.
Ross Safford is a trained chef and a former baker. He worked with world renowned baker Jeffrey Hamelman for 6 years in Vermont. He is recently retired after his work with at-risk youth and addressing food insecurity. He is a huge Boston Red Sox fan, and loves to sing.
Sourdough from Start to Finish
with Bryce Johnson & Ross Safford
Coming this Fall
with Marine Mills Folk School
Join Master Bakers Bryce Johnson and Ross Safford and learn the secrets of sourdough bread.
Description:
This is an eight-hour class, starting Friday evening and picking up again on Saturday. Students are encouraged to come on Friday to get a sneak preview and help us start the fermentation. On Saturday Bryce and Ross will take you through the steps of making bread without commercial yeast along with instructions for the caring and feeding of your own starter. Along the way they’ll show you how to make sourdough crackers, pancakes and more. When you have finished this class, you will have the confidence to not only bake using your own sourdough starter, you will be ready for more advanced sourdough baking techniques which will enable you to bake all sorts of sourdough artisan breads.
Of course, everyone will also leave with bread!
Limited to 10 people
Class Fee: $110 (+ $20 for materials)