The Builder Volume explores what it means to build—slowly, intentionally, and often from the ground up. Not just homes, but lives. Not just structures, but relationships, communities, and ways of being.

It tells stories of boats rebuilt from ruin, homes shaped by hand, and lives reframed one decision at a time. Of people choosing to begin again—sometimes out of necessity, sometimes out of longing. It looks at the quiet, daily choices that become the foundation beneath us.

This volume exists because we are always building—whether we mean to or not. And in that awareness, we are offered something rare: the chance to choose what we lay down, what we carry forward, and what we leave behind.

128 pages plus cover

Folklife is an award-winning semi-annual lifestyle magazine celebrating folks who live close to the earth, with intention and creativity. Evoking fine craftership with its minimalist design, matte aesthetic, poetic editorial and vibrant photography, FOLKLIFE honours those who live on the Gulf Islands of the Salish Sea. Each volume offers engaging interviews, stories, photographs, recipes and artwork.