We are interested in hosting a series of workshops at our new location near Eugene, OR in September and October, including workshops on simple round-pole timberframing, greenhouse construction, natural finishes, preserving the harvest and building amasonry heater. Please let us know if you would be interested in such courses so we can determine if they […]
In September of 2009 Eva designed and led the construction of a pallet structure, called the Fuddy,at Spirit Pine Sanctuary. (Click on images to enlarge!) All of the pallets were free and reclaimed from a nearby farm. The pallets were stuffed with straw-clay insulation and protected with an earthen plaster. I was inspired to build
This barrel oven was built in a summer workshop series that Max and Eva led at Hawthorn Farm in Washington. The adobe bricks were made by the oven’s owner and friends in the preceding months and the oven was built along with students during a weekend. The owner, Alexia Allen, has called us to share
Handmade Earthen Plaster and Raku Tiles Imagine a wood stove that you only had to fire for two and a half hours in the evening and that the heat produced would keep you warm all through the next day. Imagine you could bake in it and heat your domestic water. And imagine that all of
