Mike PaulsEn

Michael Paulsen grew up and attended high school in southern Vermont where he worked as a carpenter renovating historical sites in the Boston area. Mike went on to study human ecology at Greenfield Community College and received his bachelor's degree in Sustainable Community Development at Umass Amherst in 1994. Mike built and restored several historic steeples in New England before founding Stone Soup Concrete in 2001, while raising his two daughters Sienna and Meika. He has been teaching his craft at all levels for 20 years at his shop in Easthampton, Massachusetts; the Heartwood School for Timber Framing in Washington, Massachusetts; and Yestermorrow Design Build School in Waitsfield, Vermont. In 2022, he moved the shop to Proctorsville, Vermont, under the shadow of Okemo Mountain—a long-planned dream to return to his home state and downsize so that he could once again have his own hands on everything that he makes. Mike and his girlfriend recently purchased a home in Chester, Vermont, where Mike now lives full-time with their Australian Shepherd Nugget. When not working on Stone Soup projects, Mike enjoys training for and running ultra marathons, hiking, biking, and any adventurous endeavor that involves the outdoors.