If you walk barefoot onto a paved road on a balmy August night, you might notice the retained heat of the day has charged up the massive concrete with quite a lot of residual energy. Despite the sun having set hours prior, the ground is still quite warm. If you then took a step onto … More Skill Share Workshop: Rocket Stove Construction
This is a repost of material from Botan Anderson’s site, One Scythe Revolution (1SR). Botan is teaching a weekend full of sycthing classes at this year’s Sustainability Skill Share (see full course descriptions at the linked page). Attendees can take a day- or weekend-long course covering scything basics and/or more intermediate topics, with prices starting … More Skill Share Workshop: Basic and Improving Scything
Learn to sharpen your knives, chisels, and scissors by hand on a variety of stones and mediums. Throw away those cheap, store-bought guides and jigs, come explore the world of sharpness, leaving with knives sharper than you’ve ever had and the knowledge to put a fine edge on them whenever you like with the just … More Skill Share Workshop: Introduction to Sharpening Knives and Tools
Just in time for all your summer projects, we’re opening the tool library this-coming Saturday. The Low Tech Tool Library works just like a book library, but instead of Poe and Austen, we have hammers and saws. This Saturday morning, we’ll officially open the library with some light refreshments and an open house from 9 … More Tool Library Grand Opening — Saturday, June 23, 9 a.m.–noon
It’s that time of year: freezing nights and warmer days. This is when the maple sap starts to flow and a young person’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of syrup. Come join us for a maple syruping workshop on March 3 in Cooksville, Wisconsin. We’ll be tapping the maple trees on the commons of this … More Workshop: Maple Sugaring, Mar. 3, $30/20/10
Stone tools have been made by humans and their ancestors for over 2 million years. It is the oldest technology we know of, probably because all the other early tools were made of organic material, which decomposed. You can learn these skills first-hand at our upcoming workshop on Feb. 24. In this afternoon class, we’ll … More Workshop: Flintknapping, Feb. 24, $30/20
Learn to sharpen your knives, chisels, and scissors by hand on a variety of stones and mediums. Throw away those cheap, store-bought guides and jigs, come explore the world of sharpness, leaving with knives sharper than you’ve ever had and the knowledge to put a fine edge on them whenever you like with the just … More Workshop: Knife and Tool Sharpening, 18 Feb., $50/40