Welcome!

Calendar 

Workshop List (details)

 Create-Your-Own Event

Ongoing Projects:

Rocket Mass Heaters:
Can We Get a Permit?

Boats

Seasonal Samplers:

Spring:  
Wild Edible Plants,
Village Building, 
Natural Building, 
Pysanky Eggs,
Ivy Baskets, and more

Summer: 
Natural Building, 
Camps and classes, 
Boating and fishing, 
traveling workshops

Fall: 
Kitchen Alchemy, 
harvest and food preservation, 
gifts and crafts, 
Fire Science

Winter:  
Artisan Truffles, 
Paper Snowflakes, 
Ice and Crystals, 
Storytelling

Year-Round Building Blocks:
Knotical Nauledge,
Natural Paints, 
Messy Science,
Rocket Stoves,
Research, 
Writing, and Illustration
Classroom Visits,
Community Activities

Ernie and Erica Wisner: DIY Ecology

Ernie Wisner:

Work Habits: Fishing & maritime work, wildlands firefighting, botany, natural building, consulting & research, education.

Hobbies: cook, chocolatier, ballet dancer, art model.

Rocket Stove pictures:  picasa albums,  rocketstoves.com

  Email Ernie 

Erica [Ritter] Wisner:

Work: Science & art educator, curriculum developer (OMSI & others), writer, illustrator, researcher, caregiver.

Hobbies:  design, dance, travel, hiking, gardening, arts and wildcrafting. 

Publications:  E Ritter 

Personal journal: Ecca

Grandmother Project

Email Erica

  Our friends and allies:

Cascadia Wild www.cascadiawild.org,

The City Repair Project: www.cityrepair.com, 

Cob Cottage Company: www.cobcottage.com, 

Deer Haven Farms (and B&B!) www.DeerHavenFarmsBB.org

Natural Building Network: www.nbnetwork.org, 

OMSI (Oregon Museum of Science and Industry) www.omsi.edu, 

Permaculture Forums: http://www.permies.com/permaculture-forums

Portland area community resources for recyclery, education, and more

Leslie Jackson and the Rocket Research Team: www.rocketstoves.com

TOPS Learning Systems - www.TopScience.org

Trackers NW www.trackersnw.com, 

TryOn Life Community Farm, www.tryonfarm.org, 

 and our families, of course, across the generations. 

Wedding Pictures 

(Shown: Corinna, Enid, Erica, and Mira:  Sisters, grandmother, and neice.)