This season’s last Test Prep workshop took place on Saturday, one of the first relatively cool and cloudy days, which made walling a joy. Heather, Owen, Jordan, and John came to be sure they are ready to pass their Level 1 certification test this coming Thursday or Friday. Michael arrived for a last practice before…
Many thanks to fellow board member Paul Peterson for interviewing Jerry and writing this profile. Jerry joined the board of The Stone Trust (TST) in 2016 and currently serves as Treasurer. He has participated in the transition of TST from a small group of annual workshops to a broad curriculum of dry-stone walling courses that…
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…
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…
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…
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…
