The Timber
Frame
For the ones who mean it.
You're not just watching this life from a distance anymore. You're studying it. Building toward something. You want the skills, the knowledge, the hard-won detail - not just the feeling.
⬤ Timber Frame membership · $25/month
"There's a difference between knowing how to do something and actually knowing how to do it. Most people never close that gap. They watch, they read, they plan - and then life keeps happening and the gap stays exactly where it was."
The Timber Frame is for the member who's decided to close it. Who wants the seasonal rhythm of real knowledge - not a YouTube algorithm's idea of what's interesting this week. Who understands that skills accumulate, that a library of hard-won knowledge built over two years is worth more than any course you finish and forget.
Every quarter, something real. Every live session, no filler. Every mailing, something from this land.
What you get
beyond Hearthside.
A new PDF every month - practical, seasonal, hand-built. Cabin sketches. Tool guides. Foraging calendars. Fire cooking. Winter prep. These don't disappear into a downloads folder. They go in a binder on a shelf. After one year, you'll have twelve of them. That's a library.
Live, by the woodstove, no agenda. Members submit questions in the weeks before. Shawn answers honestly - not for the algorithm, not for a highlight reel. Occasionally a guest joins: a craftsman, a forager, a traditional builder. Someone who earned what they know the same way Shawn did. Every session is archived in the hub for members who can't make it live.
The two Hearthside mailings, plus two more - one mid-winter, one late summer. Each one small, intentional, from the land. The kind of thing that arrives in your mailbox and makes your week a little different than it was going to be.
Once a year, every Timber Frame member's name goes on a dedicated page on the site. Not a leaderboard. Not a vanity wall. A record - the people who showed up, stayed, and built something alongside this.
The Hearthside
The Timber Frame builds on top of Hearthside - you get the full foundation, plus everything above.
- Weekly podcast - public and members-only episodes
- Monthly Cabin Dispatch - a letter from the land
- Monthly members-only video - unedited, unfiltered
- Early restock access - 48hrs before the public
- Member comment thread - Shawn checks in regularly
- Two physical mailings per year (Timber Frame adds two more)
One a month.
Twelve by year one.
The monthly downloads follow the seasons and the work. Each one is practical and focused - the kind of thing you reach for, not file away. Over time they accumulate into something genuinely hard to walk away from.
- Cabin build sketches and structural notes
- Hand tool guide - selection and use
- Cold weather prep checklists
- Heating and firewood systems
- Maple sugaring notes - start to finish
- Garden planning and soil prep
- Mud season land maintenance
- First plantings and timing
- Foraging calendars - boreal species
- Spruce tip and pine needle harvest
- Fire cooking - recipes and technique
- Wild harvest identification guides
- Wild harvest and preservation
- Winter prep - the full checklist
- Chaga - harvest, process, store
- Firewood - splitting and stacking
Something arrives
at your door.
The Timber Frame adds two additional mailings on top of the Hearthside pair. Mid-winter and late summer - when the seasons are at their most distinct and something from the land lands differently than it would in September.
The skills nobody teaches you are the ones that change how you see yourself. Pick one. Learn it properly. See what else shifts.
The Timber Frame is for
a specific member.
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You're not just watching anymore. You're studying. You rewatch the hand tool videos. You take notes. You've started making lists of what you'd need.
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You understand that skills take time. You're not looking for a shortcut - you're looking for the right starting point and someone honest enough to give it to you.
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You have a property, or you're planning for one. Maybe it's five acres with a small cabin. Maybe it's raw land. Either way, you're building something, and you want the knowledge to match.
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You value things that accumulate. A downloads library that grows every single month. A skill set that compounds. A membership that's worth more in year two than year one.
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You want direct access to someone who's done the work - not a course creator, not a content machine. A craftsman who earned his knowledge on land that didn't forgive mistakes.
The Timber Frame
membership.
For members who want everything in Hearthside, plus downloads, field notes, and live Q&A access.
⬤ Timber Frame membership · Cancel anytime
Cancel any time. No questions, no friction.
But the library you've built stays with you in memory - not on the hub.