big wooden ball film

Well this one is right at the other end of the spectrum from my foot powered turning but I like it anyway. There is something special about really large pieces of wood, I am a fan of Brancusi and Hepworth, these may not be in the same league art wise but they have a presence and are fun and I…

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seeds of freedom

Most of my blog posts are about traditional woodworking and traditional crafts but I am also passionately interested in traditional agriculture globally and locally. Perhaps surprisingly  only 30% of the worlds food is produced by the industrialised farming methods we are so familiar with in the developed West, this system is designed to work with large acreages of land under monoculture,…

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Jamie Oliver and Cheese

Last June I spent a week in Boulogne installing our Bronze Age boat replica in the museum in the castle there. We came in to work one morning to find an English film crew setting up, Jamie Oliver was apparently coming to take on the French with some English cheeses. I am a big cheese fan particularly very special artisan…

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