09/17/2026
WELCOME OUR NEW TREES! (Part II.) Here's the story of how our trees were made. They took over a hundred hours to make!
- Set designer Lisa Scott first had to make cute tiny scale models of our poles w/branches.
- Lisa then had to upsize each branch and draw them on life-size on paper, and cut them out.
- Devan next used the paper templates to cut them out of wood
- Nearly a dozen volunteers wrapped them in chicken wire and papier mache.
- Devan had to laser cut two halves of each leaf.
- What followed was the Great Leafening. Every leaf was individually glued together on a wire to get the nice illuminated look. This took a long, long, long time!
- Next Devan had to harvest small branches, and cook them at a high enough temperature to sterilize them. Sorry, bugs :(
- While Lisa textured the limbs, volunteers wrapped the leaves around Devan's branches.
- Lisa then drilled in the branches and stuck the limbs in them.
- Mark, Devan, and Lisa mount the trees on brackets.
Wow! There's still some work to be done, but this took months and was a blast. THANK YOU to Lisa, Devan, and the dozen volunteers who made this happen. (We couldn't have done this without you.) At long last, our birch poles have branches and leaves! We love trees!
And right on time for FOLK FEST, in our 10th Anniversary Year, where we celebrate nature, each other, and the good world we will all build together. Hurray, hurray!
