Dear Lloyd Kahn and Co.,
My 45 year-old English husband, who has a log house-building qualification from the Log and Timber School in Vancouver, and I, a 35 year-old New Yorker with excellent knowledge of gardening and gathering wild foods (notably the growing of herbal plants), are looking for a suitable training opportunity to commence as soon as possible.
We yearn to be outdoors a great deal and living with our shepherd-retriever dog in a modest dwelling. Adam has extensive experience as a vehicle-dependent (Land Rover) expedition traveler all over Europe, including France, Spain and Iceland. Could somebody perhaps point us towards appropriate places where we might be welcomed?
Like so many people, we are avid followers of Lloyd Kahn’s blog, and Adam has spent a lifetime reading the Shelter publications.
So many thanks for your reply!
Cheers,
Adam Hay and Rebecca Hirschfield Hay
Adam: 646 873 0423; adamhaystudio@me.com
Rebecca: 646 873 0221; eglantine.lass@gmail.com
You guys should move to Northern California. New England has lost the Back to the Land flair it had in the 1970's-80's. Wild crafting with your dog, that screams Bay Area! Also there are oppertunities out here for elfin freaks, where so much of the rest of the country won't hand you a dollar unles you are completley square. I'm from Maine, I even moved my folks out here now we all live in the coolest urban farm compound. I think the copy of Shelter my folks left on the coffee table when I was a kid might of warped my mind in the best way possible, it planted a seed and years later the good people of the Bay Area have really helped my family begin to realize it. Just wanted to tell you what worked for me!
My family jams in our building project
http://www.youtube.com/user/masterofhounds#p/u/0/XNUwCdqGQvc
Bees swarm outside our building project.
http://www.youtube.com/user/masterofhounds#p/u/2/4cjB-HAjfIA
For closer to home, check out http://www.siriuscommunity.org, in Shutesbury, MA. They have apprentice and educational opportunities, and if they don't have what you're looking for, they can probably point you in the right direction.