The Fire Q&A
Four times a year we sit down by the woodstove and I answer your questions honestly, with no agenda and no clock. Ask about the build, the tools, the land, or the life. If I don't know the answer, I'll tell you that too. Every session is recorded and lives here afterward, so nothing is lost if you can't make it live.
The woodstove, fire going, chair beside it
No agenda, no highlight reel
Send in your question
Anything you're working through on your own place, or thinking about starting. Practical, philosophical, or somewhere in between. There are no bad questions here, only ones I haven't been asked yet.
By the fire, live
I sit down by the woodstove and work through the questions one at a time, the way a knowledgeable friend would, not the way a tutorial does. Occasionally a guest joins, a craftsman or a forager who earned what they know the same way I did.
Archived here
The recording is posted below within a few days of the session, and it stays here for as long as you're a member. The archive grows four sessions a year, and the older ones hold up.
Past sessions
Every Fire Q&A, recorded and kept. Put one on while you work.
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The Fall Fire Q&A
Footings and frost, sharpening by hand versus jigs, what I'd do differently on the first cabin, and a long answer about buying land sight unseen.
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