Welcome to earthponds
A resource for pond builders, pond lovers, and home owners.
Why earthponds?
Experience and Knowledge
Tim Matson is an award winning author about ponds, pond design, and pond building. If you are into pond building, planning to build a pond, or repairing an existing pond, you have come to the right place. Tim consults with scores of property owners each year, providing advice and counsel at reasonable rates. Photo by Joe Mehling.
Monthly Pondology Essays
Each month, Tim writes an original essay about pond maintenance; the latest trends in design; ecological concerns; and wetlands regulations. NEWS FROM THE WATERFRONT can be delivered directly to you via email. Use the contact form to sign up for the pondology, or contact Tim about your pond project.
JANUARY 2021: Forget McMansions, tiny houses are front page these days. The corona plague has a lot to do with it. Folks are moving to the country, and a tiny house fits budgets tightened by outlays for relocation. Or cottages needed for relatives and guests. Or millennials starting first homes on tight budgets, and nomads trailering tiny houses to sight-see the country or chasing employment gigs, and more. And our topic this month, that venerable classic of tiny houses, the pond house.
Pond shacks, shanties, saunas, tiny houses, changing rooms, shoreline cottages, boat houses... well, you get the idea. Pond houses have been around forever, and they are more popular than ever. And with winter coming on, ice shanties are the now pond house.
To learn more about tiny pond houses, click here.
Tim matson'S photography website
Another Side of Tim Matson
Before his work in pond design, Tim Matson was an award-winning photographer and story teller. His new website offers a look at early work, much of it never seen. Now you can.
"Matson has the eye of a cinematographer,"
The Harvard Crimson
CLICK HERE to visit the new site.
Featured book
Earth Ponds A-Z Encyclopedia
"Aside from some particularly thoughtful frogs and phragmites, no one on earth knows more about ponds than Tim Matson. His books have counseled and consoled me through the digging of two ponds, making a daunting process far more interesting and pleasurable than it deserved to be. His... A to Z Encyclopedia is the ultimate pond-owner's companion, brimming with sound advice, smart suggestions, and answers to ancient riddles. But this book doesn't only instruct -- there's delight here too." Michael Pollan,
author of the Botany of Desire, Cooked, How to Change Your Mind, and more.