Stone wall builder Matt Carter will be the featured speaker at the meeting of the Boothbay Region Garden Club meeting October 10 at 1 p.m. at St. Columba’s Church. Preceding the stone wall presentation will be a round table discussion of horizontal flower arrangement by Dr. Claire Hunt at noon.

Carter built his first stone wall on a horse farm in upstate New York in 1992. In the 20 years since then, he has built or repaired an estimated 1500 tons or 3 million pounds of dry stone walls. He has been working in Maine for 12 years creating stone walls, patios, fireplaces and ovens, among other things, using mostly native Maine stone.

Carter founded Green Island Stonework in 2004 when he relocated to Topsham from Portland. Although he specializes in stonework, Carter also design and builds complete landscapes and gardens for clients.

He has studied construction techniques for building dry stone walls with master stone wallers from the United States and Great Britain.  In 2007 after several years of study and testing at different levels with the Dry Stone Walling Association of Great Britain, was awarded an Advances Craftsman Certificate in dry stone walling.

Carter is also certified by the DSWA as a dry stone walling instructor, and occasionally organizes and teaches workshops in dry stone walling around Maine and through New England.  He has taught dry stone wall building at workshops to benefit non-profit organizations such as the Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust, the Rufus Potter Museum’s annual Cultural Series and The Stone Trust in Dummerston, Vermont.

Everyone with an interest in gardening or stone wall building is welcome at this garden club meeting. Garden club meetings are held the second Wednesday of the month and usually at St. Columba’s Church. For more information, call membership co-chairs Gail Nassif 633-6892 or Sandy Abernathy 633-0382.