March 4, 2010
Spring is here, and so are the broommakers. We had an amazing winter in Pearce/Sunsites, Arizona and collected a bunch of manzanita deadwood from Cochise Stronghold B&B land. Thank you so much to Nancy and John at cochisestrongholdbb.com for letting us prune your manzanita. What a beautiful and powerful place it is on this planet of ours. We look forward to going back next winter.

October 30, 2009
Just yesterday we 'put the shop to bed' which was a bit sad, but an indicator of our time off coming up. We took all of the remaining brooms away from the log walls and hung them with good airflow around them, and took all of the ironwork brooms home to store. As it becomes colder, the foot thick logs do their work and the whole place becomes a bit of an icecube, making it fine to store the remaining brooms for the winter. As we brought home armloads of brooms to send to two consignment shops, we looked around and saw the work we needed to do starting March 1 - Make brooms! We have a large Persian carpet cut in two hanging in front of the barn doors inside, which helps keep the place breeze free and cozy, in an icy sort of way. I feel like our shop vibrates most of the year with positive energy, so putting it to bed feels odd. I guess it needs a holiday too. Happy Hallowe'en and winter.

October 14, 2009
It is hard to believe it is the end of our 2009 broom season. We are closing our shop at 2pm October 15, until March 1st. It was an excellent year for us, thanks to our many customers from around the world who came to visit our shop. We are sorry if we missed your orders for Christmas, but we will be out of the country from early November to the end of February. It is time to rest up our hands and find some amazing manzanita for next year's production.

July 24, 2009
Happy summer everyone! Our brooms will be used in two new movies being filmed in Canada, Gunless (filmed in Osoyoos, BC) and Black Field (Manitoba.)

March 4, 2009
Our broom business and Janet are featured on page 14 of Country Woman Magazine, April/May 2009 issue. The photos are by Randy Giesbrecht of www.blackknightphoto.ca

February 18, 2009
Greetings. The master broommakers and their assistants are rested up and ready for a new year of broommaking. We will be producing and Open four days a week - Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Mondays starting Friday, February 27 and for the month of March. After April 1st, we are open seven days a week. Bring on springtime!

January 3, 2009
Happy New Year! We are off gathering beautiful natural branches. See you in early March.

October 15, 2008
Our broom shop is on snooze mode and the broommakers are taking a break. However, we are taking orders until Christmas. Happy Hallowe'en!

August, 2008
Many of you have seen the Highways Magazine article (Good Sam Club) June issue. We are honoured to be considered a must stop, but note that the author was in error about us making brooms for the Harry Potter movies. We produced brooms for the publishers of the books, and brooms for other movies.

June 8, 2008
The broom shop is as full as it will be this year. Any day now we will be selling more than we can make. Even the broommakers are impressed!

June, 2008
We recently sent a selection of brooms to Martha Stewart Living in New York for a photo shoot. A short handled cobwebber will be in the October 2008 issue, see page 51.

June 2008
Link: North Woven Broom in Rand McNally - The Crawford Bay artisans received special mention and our business was selected Editor's Pick on the 2009 Rand McNally Road Map as part of the sites to see along the Selkirk Loop, see Rob on page 2. This picture was also sent to USA Today to coincide with their interview with the Rand McNally author.

May 2008
North Woven Broom on CBC's North By Northwest - This links to the CBC North by Northwest interview of Crawford Bay Artisans. Scroll down to Crawford Bay.

March 11, 2008
Check out page 42 in Canadian Home & Country magazine, April, 2008 issue to see one of our brooms in their 'green laundry' toolbox display.

March 10, 2008
Childsplay, from Tempe, Arizona will be using one of our brooms in their upcoming play.

March 3, 2008
The shop is now open for the season! We are back into production Thursday through Sundays for early March, after a month in Arizona gathering our new supply of manzanita branches.

February 16, 2008
We are working on our new website. Finally after many years with our old one we are making some much needed changes.