Built America Magazine
Every builder can point to a moment when the path shifts.
When the familiar life they’ve been living stops feeling like the one they’re meant for. For Jon Clark, that moment came in South Louisiana, surrounded by the hum of an oil economy that couldn’t quiet the pull toward something more grounded. He wanted work he could hold in his hands. Work that mattered. Work shaped by land and light rather than pipelines and refineries. “I found Ron because he had the absolute worst website,” Jon says with a grin. “For an old-timer, usually the crappier your website, the better builder you are, and that was really when I knew I’d found the right builder.” The builder behind that terrible website was Mark LaRon “Ron” Hixson. An early pioneer of design-build in Idaho, and the man who would later shape Jon’s life, his career, and the soul of EarthCraft Construction Design Build. A Promise Made in Straw and Sunlight Long before Jon arrived, Ron had already been building custom homes in Idaho for decades.
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