Bricks to Bread Featured in Peace Corps Stories
Brittany is the peace corps volunteer for the Coto Brus community, where our most recent oven was built for the Sandi-Chanto family. She wrote an article for Peace Crops Stories about her (and her communities) experience with Bricks to Bread. Check it out here!
- On February 18, 2020 Read More
Bricks to Bread in the Saint Benedict’s Magazine
Bricks to Bread has made news, yet again! An article about Bricks to bread was published in the Saint Benedict’s Magazine (from The College of Saint Benedict in Saint Joseph, MN). Take a look!
- On April 7, 2019 Read More
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!
- On November 4, 2018 Read More
Bricks to Bread Featured in the Tico Times!
Check out the article The Tico Times just posted! Featuring Bricks to Bread!
- On July 25, 2018 Read More
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. […]
- On October 9, 2017 Read More
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 […]
- On July 6, 2017 Read More
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 […]
- On November 1, 2016 Read More
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 […]
- On October 28, 2016 Read More