We had six enthusiastic individuals participate in the first 2021 workshop held at our training site in Isanti, Minnesota. Two of the participants had previous experience working with stone in their landscape business and are looking to improve their stone working skill, two of the participants work in the construction trades as well as farming,…
As is often the case, the thirteen people who participated in May’s 2-Day Introduction to Dry Stone Walls and Cheek Rebuild arrived with varied experience. Some brought experience handed down from parents, others from dabbling with walls on their property. One brought her landscape architect’s perspectives, another the lenses of an architect. Two noted that…
Workshop day dawned chill and windy. Seventeen people, fourteen participants and three teachers gathered around two double-face freestanding dry stone walls. Each person may have felt eager to feel the warmth that comes from a working body. But you have to know what you’re doing before you start working. How are these walls built? Why…
We had a great turnout for the first Stone Trust workshop in Nashville. Participants came from Georgia, Alabama, Texas, Tennessee and Michigan. A 50/50 male/female split of beginners with little or no experience. This was a two-day introduction to dry stone walling covering all the basic techniques required to construct a section of freestanding wall.…
In this 3-day workshop, you can build an arch, a square or round corner, or a squeeze stile, features relatively common in modern landscaping. You’ll also find them in the Dry Stone Walling Association Master Craftsman test. We’ll introduce you to the theory and techniques for all the features being built. You can use the…
It’s rare that the Stone Trust is able to host a workshop with two participants, but that’s what took place at the Steps & Stairs workshop on April 19. To accommodate social distance, we have cut class spots in half and scheduled workshops back to back. Sometimes that works with people’s schedules, other times it…
Everyone at April’s Introduction to Stone Shaping class came with experience building with dry stone. One woman learned from her father when he was building walls and a dock for the beach. Several took introductory workshops and are building walls on their property. One man apprenticed in the United Kingdom and has run a landscape…
Our Contractors Introduction to Dry Stone Walling attracts professionals and homeowners alike. In each category, people come with a range of experience. Many of the eight men who braved the cold and snow on April 16 take weather conditions into account as a matter of course, given years of experience as hardscapers and landscapers–from two…
Over the course of two days in two workshops, fifteen people built patio sections at the Stone Trust Center in Dummerston, Vermont. People traveled from five states in New England, as well as from New York, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Fourteen members of the group identified as male, one as female, and one as neutral. Experience…
A vertical wall end back into the wall. The week of April 12 broke beautiful for our first-ever Walling Skills Intensive. Two women and three men joined instructors Michael Weitzner and Sam Brakeley, all with the intention of learning what they need to know to master the Level 2 hurdle. What DO you need to…
