From Sap to Seedlings

From Sap to Seedlings

Last year the 3E maple season was disastrous – the worst in anyone’s memory due to a sudden weather shift from too-cold to too-hot. The 2024 maple syrup season was the opposite, the most abundant anyone could remember. We produced a healthy harvest of 93 gallons...
Beyond Defending

Beyond Defending

Beyond Defending 3E’s Parapedagogical Techniques Fold Back Into the University in the form of a radically non-neurotypical PhD and PhD defence Erin Manning recounts: The world shifted a bit on its axis today. We felt it when Mayra Morales spoke at the end of Xece...
Immanent Critique: Art-work as Event

Immanent Critique: Art-work as Event

By Matthew-Robin Nye Wood. Rain. Mud. Power. Tarp. Silicone. Nails. Nail-gun. Measuring tape. Anemic table saw. Dog with a runny nose. Headboard with splinters. Silicone on car seat, ruined raincoats. Screws. Drills. Norwegian stove. A hole-to-come. A little nibble on...
Ceramics – Pit Firing

Ceramics – Pit Firing

Ceramics – Pit Firing The ceramics group, led by Linda Swanson, returned to 3E at the end of August to continue their on-site experimentations in local clay and mineral sourcing and on-site ceramics firing. This time, firing was done using the simplest and oldest...
Cooperative Goats – and Major Donations!!

Cooperative Goats – and Major Donations!!

The farm of one of our local collaborators, Rémi Roy, has become something like a farm extension of the 3E forest land. Located on the opposite end of Ste-Anne-du-Lac from the 3E land, it has been a working subsistence farm for generations. A work exchange arrangement...