"We loved the idea of using local craftsman and doing a timber-frame building, and focusing on the wood and the traditional techniques," he said. "Philosophically, aesthetically and functionally." ...

TAKES A VILLAGE: Barron Brown directs a crew at a barn raising near Marshall. Photo by Storms Reback It’s not every day you get invited to a barn raising, so when I did, I jumped at the opportunity.

SANTA CRUZ — A barn rises, beam by beam at Common Roots Farm on Golf Club Drive in Santa Cruz. Common Roots is building a 44-foot-by-84-foot timber frame barn in the style of the typical hay barns ...

A business built on heavy timbers Lancaster County Timber Frames draws on the heritage of Pennsylvania barn building and takes it up a couple of notches. DENNIS LARISON, Business Editor Jun 7, 2009 ...

In the swirling chaos of the early pandemic, I did not always pay attention to my carbon footprint. But when I decided to build a barn on our Vermont property, I learned how my concrete and carbon ...

From barn pulling to hand raising, builder Alicia Spence loves a project that brings people together and makes them ask, ‘What else is possible?’ NORTHAMPTON — “Points up! Like you’re ready to storm ...

Building structures out of wood doesn’t seem like a particularly innovative idea—people have been building wood houses for centuries. But when it comes to new efforts to be sustainable, all-timber ...

NEWTOWN — The mother of a slain Sandy Hook first grader drove the first birch peg into the timber frame with a large wooden mallet, sending rings through a stand of cathedral pines to the delight of a ...

[Music] hey everybody welcome back to the workshop so as you can see or maybe you can't see that I've been busy finally organizing this thing I started building this Workshop back in what year 20 is ...

CANE HILL -- Smells of brewed coffee and wood dust filled the air on the Sunday afternoon, June 1, of a long-anticipated, once-delayed timber framing workshop held May 29 to June 4 at Colburn Barn ...