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Harvesting triticale and peas with the Allis five feet at a time.  #allischalmers #allcropharvester #smallfarm #harvest #kansas https://www.instagram.com/p/Cfbwl45rgLK/ Walking Man drawing from about 8 or 9 years ago.  #drawing #art #walkingman #mystery #spiritualart Slowly bumbling my way onward through this painting of Revelation 19.  #art #revelation #oilpainting #artprocess #eternal #spiritualart I am glad that @taylorjohnsonfurnitureco believes that Christograms should be carved by hand, and that he invited me to make this one for the pulpit he is building.  Few things are ingrained deeper in my being than the desperate belief that doing and making things with our hands matters to the Holy Whole Universal Everything.  #woodworking #woodcarving #universe #craft #workofthehands #christogram A sample of the past few days cutting and putting up hay, which is a mix of alfalfa, clovers, chicory and brome, as well as cultivating and planting a cover crop of sorghum Sudan grass, sun hemp, sunflowers, cowpeas, and buckwheat.  There is a lot of hay still on the horizon and the harvest of our triticale and peas is just days away.  I wish I knew how to share the experience of being in the fields this time of year- the beauty of crops coming into fullness coupled with an intimate knowledge of how they got there married to the utter mystery of how they got there.  I feel like I am living inside Gods heart as a farmer and a steward.  To witness the struggle, the failure and the triumph  of the cycling twisting braid of life and death continually unfolding around me, under me and within me.  To have the opportunity to steward land is an unfolding and living gift.  We imagine the garden of Eden as a place of abundance and ease, more than a place of intimacy, vulnerability and fulfillment in the midst of a type of labor that doesn’t leave us empty and wasted and a rest that truly fills and restores.  I sometimes wonder if that reality is really as distant as we were taught.  #agriculture #smallfarm #harvest #hay #kansas #covercrops #stewardship Triticale and peas on the left, chicory, brome, alfalfa, and clover on the right.  4 1/2 years of the chicory and alfalfa is the foundation for the small grain, which will ultimately go back into a perennial hay cover after harvest, with a few shorter season cover crops in between.  #smallfarm #covercrop #smallgrains #chicory #triticale #soilhealth Still carving #woodcarving #christogram #blackwalnut #woodwork Detail from “the Spiritual Mechanics of Labor and Rest”  linocut.  #printmaking #linocut #art

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The School of the Transfer of Energy

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Carved Bowl in Cottonwood

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Below is a gallery documenting the process of carving a large bowl from 1/2 of a cottonwood log.

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Posted on December 30, 2012 by jackbaumgartner Posted in Bone Meal Bread, bowls and vessels, design, technique and process, traditional woodcraft, transfer of energy, wooden bowls, woodwork Tagged adze, carved bowl, cottonwood, craft, design, handmade, handtools, making, photography, traditional woodwork, wooden ware, woodwork 10 Comments

Carved Birch Bowl

Carved birch bowl.

Using the adze, making a carving block.

Curved adze for initial hollowing.

Smoothing with a curved knife.

Shaping the outside with a hatchet.

Smoothing the outside with a hatchet.

Posted on June 19, 2012June 19, 2012 by jackbaumgartner Posted in design, technique and process, traditional woodcraft, transfer of energy, wooden bowls, woodwork Tagged adze, Axe, carved bowl, carving, traditional woodwork, woodworking 3 Comments
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