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Women in Landscaping Add Dry Stone Walling to Their Repertoire at NH Women’s Intro

Eight women met at the Stone Trust New Hampshire for a 2-Day Women’s Introduction to Dry Stone Walling workshop. Many landscape professionals attend Stone Trust workshops, but this group was unique in that seven of the eight participants are landscape professionals. Five women came from Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architecture in New York, including founder Kim…

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Dry Stone Walling at Opus 40, No Matter the Weather

At the beginning of October, the Stone Trust @ Opus 40 hosted its second weekend of Stone Trust workshops this year. The 2-Day Introduction to Dry Stone Walling and Cheek Rebuild workshops were mostly full of New York residents, along with a few New Englanders. Unlike the May Intro and Cheek Rebuild workshops, where people…

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Reading List – Nick Aitken’s Dry Stone Walling – Materials and Techniques

Dry stone walls – the thousands of miles of stone ribbon stretching across the landscapes of the Scottish Highlands, Yorkshire Dales and Cotswolds – use construction methods which have existed for thousands of years. Indeed, dry stone structures in the Orkney Islands and Ireland are even older than the Egyptian pyramids. A dry stone wall…

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The Stone Trust PA Barn Comes in Handy at September Workshop

Since the barn was built at the Stone Trust PA, it has been put to great use to protect instructors and participants from the elements. Back in the winter, an indoor facility and a wood stove kept everyone warm while they learned about dry stone walling. At the most recent Pennsylvania workshop, the weather was…

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Everybody Passed! Fall Test Day at the Stone Trust Center, Vermont

Congratulations! Level 1: Lucinda Booth, MA     Kevin Halcott, VT    Brett Hunsanger, RI Darrin McCarthy, MA    Jason McGeachey, ME      Colin McKenna, MA Alan Napolitan, NY     Madylin Partridge, VT    Patrick Scully, CT R. Anuhea Sebstad, MA      Jay Staunton, MA Level 2:      Ursa Medeiros, WA Level 3:     Ben Sandri, MA As always, Fall Test…

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Fall in Vermont, What Better Time and Place to Learn Dry Stone Walling?

At the end of September, the Stone Trust Center hosted a 2-Day Introduction to Dry Stone Walling workshop in Dummerston, Vermont for this year. With a fully booked workshop, sixteen participants arrived eager to learn the five basic principles of dry stone walling. Taking the first day to learn the techniques that ensure a structurally…

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The Stone Trust Supports the NH Landscape Association Field Day

The New Hampshire Landscape Association (NHLA) held its second annual member Field Day at the Belknap County Fairgrounds on September 20th. Nearly 200 NHLA members were present to see and take part in a variety of landscape tasks. The Stone Trust conducted a hybrid build/workshop. Instructors Pete Ryder, Victoria Merriman, and Andras Lazar led participants…

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