Pete constructing our hand-built home from locally sourced wood
20+ years ago.
From those first camping trips as teenagers, Pete and I have shared a passion for making things ourselves from materials at hand. Forty years and 4 kids later we are still having fun carving, fashioning, shaping, weaving, composing, formulating, and just generally loving our handmade life.
Pete, in the main, is a woodworker and has constructed all sorts of useful things from hand-carved spoons to guitars to the home we live in. He makes treenware (hand-carved wooden utensils like spoons, ladles, bowls, and such), organic furniture, stringed instruments, among other things. Leenie, in the main, is an herbalist devoted particularly to wild plants as foods and remedies. She makes a variety of herbal preparations and items related to gardening and herbs, but is most enthusiastic about teaching others about wild-crafting (gathering from the wild) and cultivating herbs and to make their own apothecary products.
This blog will be our outlet for sharing what we are making, sometimes our musings on the process, letting you know about classes and/or where you can purchase our artisan products, and hopefully a place of learning some modern technology skills to link our yen for ancient crafting to a modern world.
Here are a few photos of current projects to inspire and spark your own creativity:
Dough bowls and ladles from local Sycamore
Vintage suitcase upcycled to a portable apothecary for herb classes away from home
Beautiful Walnut ladle made from local sustainably sourced wood
Sign up for a weed walk or herb talk with Leenie this summer and learn about the common plants of uncommon value right outside your door
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