This is a closed-loop workshop: the waste from each craft feeds the next one. We're building it with our own hands, documenting all of it, and open-sourcing the plans so you can build your own.
Most woodshops pay someone to haul their sawdust away. Ours is where everything starts. Three systems, each one fed by the last, turning a disposal problem into everything you see on this site.
Locally sourced timber becomes bowls, boards, and furniture on the lathe and the bench. Every cut drops sawdust, and we collect all of it.
→Oak sawdust becomes substrate for Reishi, Lion's Mane, and Chestnut mushrooms. Out of the grow tents come food, tinctures, mycomaterials, and living sculpture.
→Spent substrate feeds hot compost piles and worm bins. The finished compost feeds the gardens, the gardens feed us and the chickens, and the cycle starts again.
↩ SOIL GROWS THE NEXT TREE. NOTHING LEAVES AS WASTE.
Two cameras in the grow tent photograph the Reishi twice a day. The footage uploads here every night, so this video is never more than a day old. What you're watching is a MycoVase becoming itself — a vessel grown, not manufactured.
Own this piece — $250
Each Reishi Bonsai Bowl is a mated pair: an oak bowl turned on the lathe, and a Reishi grown in bonsai form from that same bowl's sawdust. Light and CO₂ shape each one as it grows. No two can ever match, because the process won't allow it.
100 pieces over two and a half years. Every sale goes into building the workshop.
See the collectionNo investors, no greenwashing, no pretending. The loop already runs at homestead scale, and we're proving it works before we scale it up. Here's the honest state of things.
Grown on our sawdust, turned on our lathe, blended in our kitchen. Buying one of these funds the buildout directly.
Dual-extracted from Reishi grown on our oak sawdust. 1oz dropper bottle.
$24
Hand-turned, one of a kind. The sawdust from this bowl grew mushrooms.
$65
Grow your own Reishi and make your own tincture. Everything included.
$40
Dried mushroom and sea salt. Earthy, umami, unforgettable.
$13"If that's the world you want to live in, then don't get upset when the culture decides to dispose of you at your slightest sign of wear and tear."From the journal — on mending a second-hand sweater
Real writing by a real person. Chicks under the woodstove, crocuses through the straw, and the occasional argument with disposable culture.
The whole model — plans, material lists, processes — gets open-sourced as we prove each piece. First we build it and show our work. Then anyone can build a Living Workshop in their own community.
Imagine a MycoMakerSpace everywhere there's a public library: a place to learn a skill, build anything you can imagine, grow food that's also medicine, digest the neighborhood's food waste, and hand the soil back to local gardens. That's the larger goal. But first, we make art.
Help us get there