This blog asks a good question:

“THE CONCORD GREEN HOME will show that a house can be non-toxic, eco-friendly, and still honor the traditional vernacular of its site, in the heart of historic Concord, MA… home of the American Revolution and literary greats like Thoreau, Alcott and Emerson.”

http://www.concordgreen.blogspot.com/

Branching Columns support Monkey Men

Sometimes folks from afar hear tell of our CSF, and our Whole Trees Architecture, and they blog about our blog.  I just found out the above link listed our CSF as an interesting counter to a new carbon-negative cement under development in the UK.  The brief article goes on to tell that despite the positive potential of such a product, there are even higher sequestrations of carbon out there– ways of building that honor the true carbon guzzlers, forests!  (That’s where we come in).

On this note, we’ve been absent from the blogosphere lately because we underwent a tremendous push to complete a federal grant application while preparing the greenhouse for our winter greens share.  It was draining!  And then we raced to catch up on all the other neglected details of life (like harvesting giant zucchinis and cleaning the bathroom).

This grant would allow tremendous things for our forest!  It would prepare us to scientifically test the “Y” branching columns we like to build with for their enormous axial and lateral strength.  Branched timbers have never been tested for their strength, despite the fact that a tree engineers these fixed connections to withstand wind, and other giant forces.  With laboratory tests proving the qualities of branched timbers, we can begin to flesh out structural codes that will allow us to build bigger and advocate better.

Again, at the MREA

Now, emerging from the haze of grant writing and self-promotion, back to the forest:

Our “Log Blog” has been live for less than 3 weeks and we are excited to discover these incoming links. Check out how the world is recognizing the concept of Community Supported Forests!