Jared Flynn, Site Manager of the Stone Trust Center in Dummerston, Vermont, is looking for help on April 21 to prepare for a Medley Weekend and on May 19 to prepare for the Sphere Build. For information and to sign up, please contact info@thestonetrust.org or call 802-952-8600. We appreciate your support! Volunteers Build Social Distance…
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Spring Test Day: May 17, 2021 (VT)
text Spring Test Day could not have dawned more beautiful, just the right weather for the special kind of day Test Day feels! People gathered before 8 — wallers ready to prove their stuff, fellow wallers present to support and quietly cheer them on, examiners and the site coordinator. All gathered peacefully, expectantly near the…
Contractors 1-Day Intro: April 16 & 17, 2021 (VT)
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…
Spring 5-Day Contractors Intro Success!
Photos are complete except I didn’t add any from Friday. Didn’t remember what was decided about Test Day photos. Click on a photo to see a larger image, then use the forward arrow to scroll through them as a slide show. Monday Tuesday Wednesday & Thursday Congratulations to the nine men who achieved Dry Stone…
Master Class: Bee Hotels & Bee Boles
Bee Hotels At the request of a Scott Farm orchardist, Master Craftsman Jared Flynn built this bee hotel into this feature wall in the Stone Trust Wall Park. Bee hotels are built as nesting space for solitary bees. Solitary bees don’t form hives like honeybees; each bee is the worker, the queen, and the protector…
January Waller of the Month: Brian Post
BRIAN POST (Vermont) started building walls at age 10. Brian achieved his DSWA-GB Master Craftsman certification in 2016, 11 years after he took his initial level walling test. In that time Brian also became a licensed landscape architect and started his own firm, Standing Stone LLC. Over the past decade he has served many roles…
Contractors’ Intro to Walling: October 16, 2020
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…
Events and Items of Interest, September 28
October Workshops Two spots left in our last 2020 2-Day Intro to Dry Stone Walling/Cheek End Rebuild workshops, October 3 & 4, Isanti, MN Come learn to shape stone with Seth Harris, Brian Post, and TJ Mora, 10/16, Dummerston, VT. Four spaces left. Jared Flynn and Sam Brakeley teach the Contractors Intro, 10/16, Dummerston. We…
Fall Test Days 2020–Everyone Passed!
The Stone Trust usually hosts two test days for people challenging themselves to achieve higher levels of certification through the Dry Stone Walling Association of Great Britain. This year, for obvious reasons, we cancelled the spring test day. Most of the people who signed up to test last spring followed up on their aspirations this…
Instructors Build Walls for Social Distance, July 4 Volunteer Day
Many thanks to the professional wallers who gave of their time and expertise on the Fourth of July to make it possible for The Stone Trust to safely teach people to build structurally sound, aesthetically pleasing stone walls. Over the years, each of them has supported us in many ways, as founders, board members, professional…