Tanglebloom Cabin
Simplicity and screened walls encourage a magical, natural connection
Weekend Cabin isn’t necessarily about the weekend, or cabins. It’s about the longing for a sense of place, for shelter set in a landscape—for something that speaks to refuge and distance from the everyday. Nostalgic and wistful, it’s about how people create structure in ways to consider the earth and sky and their place in them. It’s not concerned with ownership or real estate, but what people build to fulfill their dreams of escape. The very time-shortened notion of “weekend” reminds that it’s a temporary respite.
Melissa Hessney Masters and Mike Masters are not afraid to start from zero. When they got married in 2010, they discovered that ninety percent of the flowers in the United States were imported. It was nearly impossible to find a florist using mostly local flowers. Three years later, Melissa purchased “a patch of overgrown grass” and turned it into Tanglebloom flower farm. A year after that, she created Vermont’s first community-supported agriculture program
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