THRIVING after the FALL

The Workshop

The crafts the books name and do not teach in full

Each book keeps to its fence. A craft that serves none of its dishes, nor the table they are served on, is sent out of the chapter and comes here, to be written up in the manner of the bench: what you need, the steps, what goes wrong, the numbers to carry.

Sent from Chapter 4 Copper, Wood and Stone

  • The beam press to be written

    The oil press Chapter 4 names and does not build: the beam, the wedge and the seam.

  • The lute and the seam to be written

    Sealing a copper vessel and closing a cramped joint, sent out of Chapter 4's Story.

Sent from Chapter 6 The Five-Year Conversation

Sent from Chapter 7 The Orchard and the Wild

  • The mushroom bed to be written

    Oyster and shiitake on Brandenburg beech, the foraging calendar and the four rules.

Sent from Chapter 8 The Cow, the Pig and the Hen

  • The pig and hen breeds to be written

    Deutsches Sattelschwein, Bunte Bentheimer, Vorwerk and Ramelsloher: what each is for and where it survives.

Sent from Chapter 9 The Hardest Chapter

  • The German cuts to be written

    Hesse, Beinscheibe, Tafelspitz, Eisbein and Kasseler: the carcass by the German butcher's map.

Sent from Chapter 10 The Water

  • The willow eel trap to be written

    Coppiced willow, the funnel, the night line and the weir, and the fishing law.

Sent from Chapter 11 Salt

Sent from Chapter 15 Drink

  • The keeve to be written

    Werder cider by keeving: the pectin cap, the slow ferment, the sweetness kept.

Sent from Chapter 17 The Table

  • The bar soap to be written

    Lye from beech ash, tallow, the stoichiometry and the cure, and the soap for the three kitchen cloths.

  • Linen from flax to be written

    The flax hectare, retting, scutching, hackling and the bleach. Chapter 17's decision 4 sent it here.

Sent from Chapter 18 The Village

  • The well to be written

    Water for the animals and the house, and the one dangerous method in Chapter 18.