Dryad Studios is the furniture shop. We specialize in Custom, Limited Production, and Reproduction Arts & Crafts Furniture. Since 1985, our shop has capably reproduced hundreds of original pieces, and designed hundreds more. We now focus mainly on Original Designs, incorporating a wide range of traditional and innovative elements. Our work includes all of the familiar styles, including Mackintosh, the stronger forms of the "Mission" lines, and a broad range of other, "Arts & Crafts", furniture concepts.
Upside Downs is the Farm. It is an evolution of the " Tree Farm ", that has been Dryad Studio's home for almost 40 years.
That new " Agricultural ", farm effort is expanding as Climate Change is destroying the timber on the upper 100 acres of our 160 Acre "Tree Farm". We now raise a variety of vegetable crops. And, we are slowly fencing, after removing the timber, 100 acres to pasture Dexter Cattle, Boer/Kiko meat goats, and "Irish Grazers"...Tamworth pigs. All the while, we refrain from displacing any of the myriad of birds, reptiles, and mammals that call our mountaintop home.
Sustainability, as an in vogue catchphrase, elicits laughter (in our kinder moments) and sometimes derision, ( when the exigences of rural combat are at their fiercest). We walk the walk.....ALL our vegetables, Most of our fruit, All of our meat, All of our milk, butter, cheese, yogurt, All of our furniture, All of our dwellings ....are produced from materials on the farm.
We like you, folks...... BUT .... cutting through all the delusions and misconceptions, let alone the layer upon layer of cultivated commercial ignorance .... well, IT IS TOUGH.
I / WE are going to try....in as polite a manner as possible.....with as much tact as we can muster, offer a perspective and vision of the past....and the only possible future. BUT ..... as the joke ends, "It is time to decide if you are going to fish, or cut bait".
AGAIN..... I cannot make this simple and easy. Your.....yes, you the reader, YOUR most dangerous opposition will come from within....YOURSELF, and the accumulated social, physical, economic, cultural, and economic mis-direction and misconceptions that have been the source of your bond to our current society. YOU WILL NOT be able to implement these changes without painful revaluation of all that you currently find necessary.
Your everlasting summer
You can see it fading fast
So you grab a piece of something
That you think is gonna last
But you wouldn't know a diamond
If you held it in your hand
The things you think are precious
I can't understand
Steely Dan/ Reelin' in the Years
As I proceed, I will undoubtedly offend some of you. I may, to some degree, offend everybody. I will try to keep my observations, evaluations, and solutions relevant, obtainable, and offer all the possible variables in those solutions.
I, personally, am offended by the socio/economic lattice that keeps you trapped in a web of poor food, poor environment, poor economic choices, and cleverly limited options in general.
How many Psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb ???
Just one.....but it takes a very long time, and the bulb has to want to change !!
Or, in a more modern lexicon........" Which will it be, the red pill or the blue pill " ??
