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Mother Nature's Designs
Good Idea's from The Woods
INTRODUCTION
Welcome to Mother Nature's Design. All materials in our designs are reclaimed and organic.
The cedar we use is from a wind blow down, that was cleaned up, due to a flooding problem.
The cedar we use is from a wind blow down, that was cleaned up, due to a flooding problem.
Our apple wood is from an Organic Orchard which was removed due to age and the general market. We have worked with this Farmer for several years and felt we could reclaim and reuse the waste from this devastation and these are "Our Good Ideas from the Woods".
All of our items are functional and have style all their own. "Mother Nature Designs" each curve and twist in each branch and we try to make as little cuts as possible. Many hours go into reclaiming the right pieces. We use almost everything that remains. Our idea is to find a practial use for everything that we can, "our imaginations" are our only limitations.
Natural forms have their own flow, as can be seen in any grain of wood. Our thoughts are to marry the forms in to practical art. Each piece must match its partner's shape and form. The marriage is never forced, or cut to suit...... we just go to our pile and find the right mate. These creations are a "True Labor of Love".
We will miss all the birds and the blossoms, but in these creations we can hope to give something back. " Natures Cradles" are one of our best thoughts, a tree cradling a sapling, as it is the natural way. And we all should plant at least one tree in our lives.
Next, the bird houses (we are birders). What better building material then the same trees they had raised their young in? So we have made many types to suit each bird's natural preference. Now to feed them, the "Stick Around" came to be. Just a simple suet feeder.......but look closer, we have taken the time to pick pieces that have natural perches for many types of bird that don't normally eat at these kinds of feeders. We even have made bases for some so that the different birds can perch and feed. And for all others, we designed our "Cedar Silos", which can handle everything from peanuts and sunflower seeds to canary seed. All with just a turn of a few screws.
And we were not about to forget about our nocturnal winged friends..........Bats. And we have quite a few in 300 acres of orchard. They are by far the best natural bug control known to man. So of course they needed homes also. Time for another design.....and hollow logs just seem perfect (the bats think so!)
Many Artists work with cedar as we do, but our passion is for the apple wood creation. They have timeless beauty and natural flow. Each piece is a one of a kind and we can take very little credit for the lasting beauty found in the form and twisting grains in the wood. Our time is spent collecting, stripping, and fitting hundreds of pieces, yet even in this, we have a useable by product; cedar bark for flower beds, clean sawdust and drill chips for the neighbor that raises rabbits and birds. Apple chips for our friends with backyard smokers and barbecues. Even the small, stripped, dryed branches of the cedars are gathered and soaked in the pond for days, to then be bent into shape for the arbors and trellises we create, along with a few very special dream catchers.
We have found our local birds very interested in the new found source of nest building material. Long grain cuttings produces long string like threads and the cedar bark strips to hair like fibers. So we have started to include some "Nest Starter" to our bird homes, and to our list of recycled products.
As I spend time in the bush and at the brush pile, I find I have time to reflect a little, to see 60 year old trees that have given and beared fruit for all to share in, now torn from the ground and heaped in to large piles, waiting to be burned. Eating up more of our life blood(oxygen) and no trees to replace them. It did seem bleak, but we will do our little part right here. We will reincarnate everything we can and will keep making "Natures Cradles" as long as we are able.. So do the world a favor and plant a tree. If not one of ours, plant one of your own. It's the right thing to do. Please Think Green, and enjoy our "Good Ideas from the Woods".
"Just One Man's Thoughts" Rob Mahy co/founder
We are still at 205730 26 hwy, Meaford, and also have items on dispaly at The Georgian Peaks Club on 26 hwy.
Inventory
To look at all of our inventory, click on older posts at the bottom.
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Prices for Our Unique Items
Nature's Cradle (lg) $20.00
Nature's Cradle (sm) 15.00
Nature's Cradle (empty) 8.00
Window Boxes 25.00 & up
Plant Stands 40.00 to 80.00
Deck Tables 50.00 to 100.00
Bird Houses; 25.00
downy & harry woodpecker
robin's roost
chickidee & house sparrow
nuthatch
bluebird
Cedar Silo's (bird feeders) 25.00 to 30.00
Stick Arounds ( suet feeders) 12.00 ea. or 2 for 20.00
Some of Our other items:
Walking Sticks 18.00
Beaver Pole Trellis' 40.00 & up
Cedar Pole Trellis' 40.00 & up
Milk Stools 30.00
Cat scratchers 30.00
Tea Candle Logs 12.00 ea or 2 for 20.00
Tea Candelabra (wall mount) 20.00 & up
Natural "Canvas" Plaques 15.00 and up
Fish of Ontario
carved & painted 50.00 to 75.00
Nature's Cradle (sm) 15.00
Nature's Cradle (empty) 8.00
Window Boxes 25.00 & up
Plant Stands 40.00 to 80.00
Deck Tables 50.00 to 100.00
Bird Houses; 25.00
downy & harry woodpecker
robin's roost
chickidee & house sparrow
nuthatch
bluebird
Cedar Silo's (bird feeders) 25.00 to 30.00
Stick Arounds ( suet feeders) 12.00 ea. or 2 for 20.00
Some of Our other items:
Walking Sticks 18.00
Beaver Pole Trellis' 40.00 & up
Cedar Pole Trellis' 40.00 & up
Milk Stools 30.00
Cat scratchers 30.00
Tea Candle Logs 12.00 ea or 2 for 20.00
Tea Candelabra (wall mount) 20.00 & up
Natural "Canvas" Plaques 15.00 and up
Fish of Ontario
carved & painted 50.00 to 75.00
Location
Please feel free to stop in at our creative centre and our show area. we can be found:
2km west of the town of Meaford
on 26 Hwy on the south side. FC 205730
2km west of the town of Meaford
on 26 Hwy on the south side. FC 205730