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The June 14-15 the DSWAC  two-day dry-laid walling workshop, to teach people the basics of using inexpensive random fieldstone to create a section of traditional free-standing garden was a great success.

During the last half of October 2007, the DSWAC was invited to Glendale Gardens to help run some more dry stone walling workshops in British Columbia on Vancouver Island. These two day workshops were very well attended and produced some wonderful new stone walls which are situated near the enclosed Japanese garden and nearby, to the south of vegetable garden. The students learned how to build with dump loads of local random blasted rock (mostly boulders) as well as stack flatter gneiss rock, which is much more expensive and comes delivered on pallets.

The DSWAC held a special bridge building course July 29 through to August 6th at Karlo Estates near Wellington in Prince Edward County Ontario 2007. Over the 9 day period, men and women of various backgrounds coming from as far away as Texas, Alberta and Quebec attended this special hands-on workshop.

At Prince Edward County this June, the DSWAC ran a second beginner's course, at the historic 6th Town Workshops site. A long section of wall was completed over the two days using round local granite stones this time, instead of the local flat limestone we used for the course last year. The wall extends along another side of a reproduction cemetery enclosure being created beside the lovely Anglican church which has been moved to the property and has been restored by Diane and John Brisley.