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…
We get lots of requests for help selecting gifts for wallers and aspiring wallers, so we put our heads together and came up with few holiday bundles perfectly suited to the level of your favorite wall builder. For those just starting to explore the world of walling, we’ve gathered The Primer set, with our most…
Dan joined the board of The Stone Trust (TST) in January 2020. He has been working with stone since he was fourteen years old when he also began helping his father with his general construction business. Dan is a Dry Stone Walling Association of Great Britain (DSWA-GB)-certified Level 2 Intermediate waller and instructor. He is…
In January, Paul generously offered to interview the twelve members of The Stone Trust board. He offers this profile of himself. Many thanks, Paul, for helping us understand the skills, experience, and commitments you and others bring to your work on the board! Paul joined the board of the Stone Trust in January 2020. His…
“Stone walls have been in my life since I was a child,” one of the participants in the Flagging workshop reported. Like many of the weekend’s participants, she brought extensive professional experience of designing and building with stone. Fundamentals of Flagging ranks among the advanced classes in our Curriculum in Dry Stone. The class included…
In anticipation of heavy rain, instructors Brian Post and Seth Harris set up tents for the Stone Shaping workshop. The morning got off to a good start, with experienced and enthusiastic students all of whom were here to learn what one woman described as “how to take the nubs off rocks that don’t make them…
The rain held off for the first several hours of the last Contractors Intro of 2020. Most of the seven students were able to lay the foundations and build through the first lift before the deluge struck. They completed the second—and in some cases third—lifts in the driving rain. Even though each waller built his…
As workshop participants began to gather at the new social-distance just past the high wall in the Stone Wall Park, certified instructor Pete Ryder observed that the age range in the class extended from 17 to 70. The youngest student comes with a couple of days experience hearting with a local professional. He’s thinking of…
October 18th Retaining Wall Workshop October 17th Retaining Wall Workshop only have group photo from Oct. 18th Retaining. (old text) 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…
