To many, the idea of going to the woods, cutting down a tree, crafting a simple longbow, and taking a deer with it is nuts—very cool, but nuts. But for some, the idea is captivating: as it was, and ...

This story was originally featured on Outdoor Life. The bow and arrow have been utilized by hunters and warriors for thousands of years. A simple-yet-elegant weapon, it’s provided meat and aided in ...

Learn how to turn a simple wooden stave — which you can cut to size yourself — into a stick bow, complete with homemade bowstring, designed perfectly for your shooting style and preferences. This past ...

Seven Days is 30, and we need your help to celebrate. With your donation, we’ll stay on track, delivering rigorous reporting on Vermont news and culture. The woodshop at the Shelburne Craft School is ...

There are many forms that meditation can take in nature. Devotees of shinrin-yoku, or forest bathing, practice a slow saunter through the woods while soaking in its energy. Lovers of labyrinths lose ...

Bow-maker Eben Bodach-Turner roughs out a cello bow at his home workshop in East Montpelier earlier this month. Bodach-Turner works with pernambuco, an endangered tropical hardwood from Brazil that is ...

NEW BERLIN - Several dozen rough-hewn sections of logs lay piled on a table at Ojibwa Bowhunters. To the unenlightened, the 8-foot pieces appeared ready for a bonfire. But the creative and industrious ...

Cello instructor Ben Kulp, right, plays a Bach cello suite with a bow recently purchased from bow-maker Eben Bodach-Turner, of East Montpelier, Vt., left, as he rehairs bows for students at the Upper ...