Wheeler and Michael are makers sharing a look inside their thoughts and processes — in the wood shop and leather shop, on their maple syrup farm and wherever the work takes them. These films thoughtfully follow the slow work of shaping materials, tending the land, and cultivating beauty in the everyday.
“These films are unhurried and centered on the process of making the thing, with voiceovers that share the stories, musings, and ideas that come up along the way. They're not tutorials, but they may satisfy your inner autodidact. Mostly, they feel like time spent working with us.”
-Wheeler and Michael
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In 2012, Wheeler designed our first leather tool belt made specifically for gardeners to solve a simple problem: tools lost or misplaced in the garden. She refined and expanded those original concepts, and through an early partnership with Erin Benzakein of Floret Flowers, what she created became The Farmer-Florist Tool Belt — launching a global movement that changed how flower farmers and gardeners carry their tools worldwide.
Today, we continue to cut and sew every belt to order in our mountain cabin workshop. Everything we make comes from our collection of original designs.
We are a small family farm tucked away in the mountains of Ashe County, NC. We make a limited amount of syrup each year during a slim window of weeks in late winter. We are the southernmost commercial maple producer in the country that we know of, and our southern season for syrup production generally runs from mid January through mid March. That is the time of year when our sap runs.
We have a dedicated farm blog for Waterfall Farm on the farm website where we share our farm story each winter during sugar season along with updates about our once annual syrup release.