Sacred Building: Mortise and Tenon
We’re in the midst of building a timber frame and she’s a lovely thing to watch come together. Mark, a timber framer and sawer who …
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Cob: Embracing Earth’s Alchemy
|By Steven Martyn| We’ve just finished the cob floor in the roundhouse, and I rediscovered my love of this most ancient material. She’s beautiful to …
Laying down the Bones; making a rustic chair
|By Steven Martyn| These days everything seems to take me a long time to manifest. Kids, making a living, maintaining the farm, all demand a …
Goddess in the Greenhouse
She’s just starting to awaken outside. Where we live in the upper Ottawa Valley, the winter was late in coming and there hasn’t been much …
Willow Basket Making
|By Steven Martyn| It’s early March and coming into the cane harvesting season. Megan and I have been prayerfully coppicing the same Willow trees …