It's been a long time coming, this new workshop building of ours. It started years ago, with a dream of a beautiful place for our students to assemble, work on skills and crafts, learn in a large classroom, and have a place for bathrooms and showers right in our camp area, rather than in portable toilets and at our small farmhouse. We certainiy needed it. We had classes of kids coming every fall and spring, as well as adult trainings and workshops, and retreats. We h

There are a ton of reasons to choose a timber framed building over a conventional, 'stick' framed building made from 2x4 or 2x6 spruce cut from the Pacific Northwest forests. One is the impact your frame's cost will have on the local economy. Money spent for a local sawyer and local builders stays in the economy and changes hands up to five different times, thus stimulating the region economically in a very postive and profound way. Wood bought at Lowes or Home Depot d