The Stone Trust offers a variety of workshops at is principal location in Dummerston, VT as well as affiliated sites in Barre, V , Minnesota, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee.
The Stone Trust, PA held simultaneous workshops–Introduction to Dry Stone Walling and Cheek Rebuild–at the end of June. Just two people attended, allowing both participants to get one-on-one instruction and answers to their questions. Instructor Jerry Coggin described the weekend like this: For a small group it was interestingly intense, from the perspective of the…
Earlier in the month of June, the Stone Trust, PA taught a one-day introductory workshop to a couple of participants from Pennsylvania and Virginia. Both participants came to learn the five basic rules of dry stone walling in a single day, and were successful in doing so. The landscape architect even earned continuing education credits…
Beautiful, windy weather for building walls and splitting stones! A note from instructor, Dan Peterson What a weekend for the most recent Minneapolis Stone Trust intro and cheekend workshops. We had participants from Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois and North Dakota enthusiastically working on general walling and cheeks. The weather here has been exceptionally dry (seems…
Fascinated by stone walls? Have a wall to rehabilitate, a grade to secure with a retaining wall, a pathway to flag, a slope to traverse with steps? Are you a person with projects? A professional seeking to add the art and craft of dry stone walling to your portfolio of services? Stone Trust workshops teach…
Two groups of wallers came to the Stone Trust Center on the first weekend of June, some to an Introduction to Dry Stone Walling and others to a Women’s Intro. People came from across the Northeast and there seemed to be a bit of a theme developing as they arrived and introduced themselves. Multiple pairs…
As the last workshop in May, the Stone Trust, PA welcomed five wallers to introductory and cheek rebuild workshops. Four out of five wallers came from Pennsylvania, with one from Virginia. Everyone learned how to apply the five basic rules of dry stone walling either to a central section of a wall or to a…
Every year in the spring and fall, the Stone Trust brings Dry Stone Walling Association Master Craftsmen-Certification Assessors from the UK. The masters teach a 2-Day Introduction to Dry Stone Walling the day before or after Test Day. This year, Andy Loudon, Chief Assessor for the DSWA, traveled to the Stone Trust Center in Dummerston,…
Congratulations: Level 1: Alfred Dedam Connor McIntyre Crennan Thompson Darryl Bullay David Foster Forrest Peaker Jared Randall Joshua Moore Seth Hatch Tyler Hall Level 2: Sam Johnson Every year, the Stone Trust Center hosts two test days; one in May and one in September. Test days are a chance for wallers to get certified…
