The Heavy Life

What happens when you stop consuming and start making — your food, your furniture, your home, your community — with your hands, and on purpose.


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Dispatch: Rain, and a Place for the Gear

Rain provides the necessary pause to audit the workflow. A look at the 'Buy Once, Cry Once' kit—from the Benchfoods Dehydrator to the Chamber Vac—and the blueprint for a larder built to furniture-grade tolerances.

12 February 2026 · 2 min read min read

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The world of

Dust, Steam & Timber

Garden

Soil, seed, and the automation that was already there.

Workshop

Fine furniture and honest joinery. Built to outlast everything.

Kitchen

Preservation, fermentation, and modernist cooking with intent.

Table

The supper club. Where the making meets the people it's for.

Study

Reading, writing, and the ideas that hold the rest together.


Current Project

The Heirloom Pantry

A furniture-grade station for the kitchen's modernist tools — the dehydrator, the chamber vac, the sous vide. A bridge between the sawdust of the workshop and the steam of the kitchen, built to be handed down.

Timeline
180 days
Domain
Workshop × Kitchen
Standard
Furniture-grade heirloom

Dispatches

Notes from the workshop, the kitchen, and the table
Dispatch: Rain, and a Place for the Gear
12 Feb 2026

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