American writer Wendell Berry sums up the holistic nature of working natural materials-

‘The good worker loves the board before it becomes a table, loves the tree before it yields the board, loves the forest before it gives up the tree’.

It’s …

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Collect your sap, drill your hole with a sterilised drillbit and insert the tap or ‘spigot’. I’ve customised a ‘speedy spigot’ from a piece if pipe, a small length of tube inserted into the pipe with …

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