Funk's Workshop - Welding modern-day blacksmiths and preserving hands-on craft

Meet blacksmith Jeffery Funk, founder of the New Agrarian School - the only blacksmithing school in the West - in Big Fork, Montana. Now in its sixth year, Funk’s unique approach to passing on the trade includes a philosophy to help it become what he calls a “regenerative” practice. The cultural imperative of preserving blacksmithing underscores Funk’s life work, but the satisfaction of creating something by hand is the real thing he hopes to pass onto his students.
Read "Funk's Workshop" in the Sumer 2024 Mountain Outlaw magazine: www.mtoutlaw.c...