Craftsmanship Quarterly: Latest Stories
Spring 2022 - The Soil Saviors
The Drought Fighter
On a frigid, eight-acre farm just outside downtown Sebastopol, Paul Kaiser has devised a hyper-intensive form of organic agriculture that is grossing more than $100,000 an acre. And, he believes, saving the planet at the same time. Yet a number of farming experts see trouble on his horizon.
By TODD OPPENHEIMER
New Podcasts
Listen to “Paul and Elizabeth Kaiser on Healing our Soil, and Going Beyond Organic,” A Craftsmanship Artisan Interview
In this episode of our Artisan Interview audio series, Todd Oppenheimer sits down with Paul and Elizabeth Kaiser, a husband-and-wife…
Written by Craftsmanship Editors Narrated by TODD OPPENHEIMER with PAUL & ELIZABETH KAISER
Listen to “The Glass Builder”
Ann Morhauser started with nothing but debt in a tiny glassware studio in Watsonville, a coastal community in central California.…
Written by PEGGY TOWNSEND Narrated by AVANTHIKA SRINIVASAN
Listen to “The Hidden Powers of a Sheep”
Not only is wool unusually cozy and durable, but its creators (the sheep) can help regenerate the soil, along with…
Written by JUDITH D. SCHWARTZ Narrated by CHRIS EGUSA
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Field Notes
The Little Block-Printing Workshop that Could
“A rising tide doesn’t raise people who don’t have a boat. We have to build the boat for them. We…
Written by Ruth Alden Wicker
The Craft of Reclamation: Sustainable Addiction Recovery in Appalachia
In Appalachian Ohio, craftsmanship is a vital piece of the growing support system for recovery—philosophically, economically, and on a very…
Written by JACK SHULER
Photography by ANDREW FEIGHT
Build Back with Beer (Craft Beer, to be Precise…)
When veteran journalists James and Deborah Fallows spent four years criss-crossing the U.S. looking for what makes small-town revivals succeed,…
Written by BEN SPEGGEN
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Videos
Watch “The Art of the Hat”
An homage, in film, to a third-generation Italian artisan—the last maker of the traditional, handcarved wooden shapes that are used…
By LUISA GROSSO
Watch “Mike Morgan’s Quest to Make Traditional Skin Boats”
Mike Morgan’s fascination with small, traditional watercraft dates back to the ’80s. Building on his decades of experience as a…
By MIKE MORGAN, SIMON MORRIS, and JERRY CROSS
Watch “The Ancient Mangle of Santarcangelo di Romagna”
In a tiny town on Italy’s Northeastern coast, the Marchi family printworks may be the world’s last shop to produce…
By LUISA GROSSO
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