In his cozy workshop behind his D.C. home, contemporary kumiko craftsman David Gootnick, a Craft Show featured artist, uses the raw material of his practice: a five-foot-long, two-inch-thick plank of ...

Back some 30 years ago, I read that most of the wood ash produced in Canada for power and recovery boilers went to landfills, with less than three per cent for cropland application. Even today only 37 ...