2021 Apprenticeship: Ancient Pump Logs + Shou Sugi Ban Cold Frame
The 2021 Apprenticeship covered a lot of ground. Projects we worked on, and highlights included:
Built a sandbox for the local school — including a timber framing session for the students, in order to make the box.
Designed and built a huge shou sugi ban earth-sheltered cold frame with sunward/angled sides
Built new watercourses, waterfalls, and step pools in a pond system using pump logs that hadn’t helped water flow in about 200 years
Broadcasted seed mix on eroding local landscapes
Made nut propagation beds, planted trees, divided perennial pollinators and medicinals, run with a currant hedge
Pollarded black locust in our original oak savannah,
Attended on-site and online consults
Had lots of fun, got really wet and cold, jumped in ponds, sweated in the sauna, breathed lots of fresh air and woke up immune systems, shared a lot of laughs.
