What happens when you stop consuming and start making — your food, your furniture, your home, your community — with your hands, and on purpose.
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 readSoil, seed, and the automation that was already there.
Fine furniture and honest joinery. Built to outlast everything.
Preservation, fermentation, and modernist cooking with intent.
The supper club. Where the making meets the people it's for.
Reading, writing, and the ideas that hold the rest together.
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.
Shop notes, kitchen notes, recipes, and the occasional invitation — delivered when there's something worth saying.