Field Trip to Eric Ewald's Property

Our first class field trip was to Eric Ewald's property. Eric harvests wood from the trees on his own land (which is 20 min. away in Almond, NY) and sells the lumber to students in the wood shop, where he works as the technician. We used Eric's basswood for our Ectoparasites project, so it was good to be able to see where our materials came from and how what we're doing as artists relates to the local environment. We walked around in the woods and identified different trees, talked about how they can be harvested sustainably, and then looked at the machines that are used to cut the tree into lumber.

(Photos by Mike Fleming)