Mid-July I had the pleasure of seeing “Cadi & the Cursed Oak” displayed at the Children’s Flower Shower at Birchard Public Library in Fremont, Ohio. Every summer members of Whispering Meadows Garden Club select a children’s book, create a floral design for the book and then donate the book to the library. The gardening club…
Read more(You can read part one here.) Craig Jackson started Machine Time in 2016. It now occupies 25,000 square feet of manufacturing space. The company has 15 employees and plans to hire five more this year. It recently brought on investors to grow even more. “We mostly do aerospace parts, stupid tolerances,” Craig says. “Some of…
Read more“All I’ve ever been and all I am still is just a machinist,” says Craig Jackson. Craig, owner of Machine Time, which provides custom machining services using 3-, 4- and 5-axis CNC machining, manufactures elements of several Crucible tools, including the Crucible Sliding Bevel (which he also co-designed); Crucible Dovetail Template; Crucible Dividers, Type 2;…
Read moreWould Works trains and employs people experiencing homelessness or living in poverty. Located in Los Angeles, Would Works holds a Beginner Builder workshop twice a week teaching sanding, finishing, branding and packaging. Folks who have completed the Beginner Builder workshop move on to the Community Builders Program, where they learn machining, design and furniture fabrication….
Read moreA friend of mine who has lately begun to keep bees is finding them a great source of new interest. He steals down to his garden to have a look at them whenever he can snatch a moment from his work. It is like peeping into another world, he says, and it sends him back…
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