Closer to Landscape, Episode #22: Cycling the outer edges of the Gaume, walking, interview with a carpenter-storyteller

by Menno Heling

🎥 In This Episode You’ll Experience:

• visit and contemplate the sunflowers one last time before harvest
• working in the garden, chopping wood, clearing the upper yard
• finding peace and mushrooms in the forest
• Picking blackthorn or sloe (Prunus spinosa) berries to make jam (with apples, oranges and cinnamon)
• walking, walking, walking
• interview with Jérôme Kiefer, carpenter at JK Atelier Créations Bois
• taking a trip along the Meuse and the Canal de l’Est

🗺️ Filmed In:

• Pays de Montmédy and Gaume, in the Lorraine region of France
• Surrounded by fruit trees, cool forests, and quiet villages

🕰️ Chapters
00:02 – Summary reel
 00:53 – Opening monologue, visiting the sunflower fields
 02:21 – Openingssequence
 04:03 – Working in the garden
 06:44 – Finding peace in the forest and maybe some mushrooms
 10:03 – Chopping wood for the winter stock
 11:44 – Picking blackthorn or sloe (Prunus spinosa) berries to make jam
 14:37 – Making jam
 15:33 – Interview with Jerome Kiefer, caprpenter
 22:37 – Visit to his showroom in the citadel of Montmédy
 25:22 – Early morning walk
 28:28 – Trip along the Meuse and the Canal de l’Est

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