Participants in last weekend’s workshops came with a range of motivations and brought a diversity of experience. Joe, Ken, Andrea, and Steve all came to the 2-Day Intro as beginning wallers seeking formal instruction. Some of them brought a degree of experience gleaned from projects at home. One learned from a father-in-law who had built…
You may or may not know that The Stone Trust (TST) runs workshops in locations outside of New England. In the north central US, sustainable landscape designer Dan Peterson offers workshops at the site of TST corporate member Northland Landscape Nursery in Isanti, MN. Dan is also a TST professional member, certified DSWA-GB instructor, and…
The eight men and women who arrived on Saturday to learn to build retaining walls all arrived with experience building double-faced walls. Each of them had participated in a prerequisite introductory workshop within the past two years, two of them just the day before. Now they would apply the 5 basic principles in a different…
On a cool, moist, overcast Friday, we combined the July 17 Introduction to Dry Stone Walling and Contractors Intro into one workshop taught by Pete Ryder and Andras Lazar. Needless to say, walling experience among the 10 participants encompassed a large range from none to minimal to decades. For one woman who recently joined a…
You may recall that on July 4 a group of instructors volunteered to build new walls, so we can teach walling while accommodating social distance. One week later, on July 11, The Stone Trust hosted our first workshop since the moratorium began at the end of March. During the Introduction to Dry Stone Walling workshop,…
