Wood Preparation

The first step in the building process was to count and sort the wood. We also precut as much of the wood as possible at the greenhouse, taking advantage of the level, covered space and power source. Luckily, the greenhouse poly is slated for replacement in the coming year, with funding from the Walmart-Evergreen Green Grants program, so we were able to remove the end walls of the greenhouse and create a nice cross-draft through the space.


Jon helps to set up a cutting station in the greenhouse.

Jeff carts some skids on which to stack the cut wood.

John and Sidney devised a scheme of stacking 2x2's in within the frames of skids, to minimize warping.

This is our friendly, neighbourhood giant garter snake, with whom we share the greenhouse space.

Jack, Vincent, Dave and Laura work away to prepare the wood for use in framing.


These lengths of white cedar, cut carefully to different lengths, will create a curved form in the pavilion.


Nick helps to peel back the cardboard from the cured foundation piers.


Father and son team Allister and Sidney assemble a temporary frame to be used for construction staging.