This workshop is all about how to build and use guides for dry stone walling. We will show you different methods and materials to build batter frames for a variety of situations.
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Master Class: Slate, Part 2
July Waller of the Month: TJ Mora
Meet Judy Rand, Board Member
Many thanks to fellow board member Paul Peterson for interviewing Judy and writing this profile. Judy joined the board of The Stone Trust in January 2017 and currently serves as secretary. She became an avid enthusiast of dry stone walling after taking a two-day introductory workshop in May 2014. Over the next few years, Judy…
Events and Items of Interest, July 29
Participant Submission from Paul Russell Thanks to Paul for permission to share this photo titled, “My First Wall Ever.” Last September I attended your workshop in New Hampshire on Dry Walling hosted by Pete Ryder. I wanted to learn what to do with the stones that I had accumulated during my landscape renovation of my…
Minnesota 2-Day Intro: July 18 & 19, 2020
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…
Retaining Walls: July 18, 2020
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…
Intro/Contractors Intro: July 17, 2020
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…
Events and Items of Interest, July 22
TODAY! 6/22 @ 6 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time Troubled Waters: A Review of Historic Best Practices in Stonemasonry A webinar sponsored by Friends of Santa Fe Architecture. Presented by TST professional member Joe Dinwiddie. 4 p.m. Eastern Participant Submission from Jim Wood This dry stone retaining wall holds back the oversteepened slope of a mine…
August Workshops! 3 Kinds of Intro Courses and Test Prep
Our August schedule opens with a 2-Day Introduction to Dry Stone Walling in Mont Vernon, NH on August 1 and 2. We’ve got 3 spots left. Sign up now! Mid-August presents women with the opportunity to learn from other women who are professional wallers at the Women’s Intro in Dummerston on August 15. Or come…