Natural BuildingWeekend workshop

Green Woodworking & Spoon Carving

La Sabina · Navarrés, Spain

Three days at the bench turning fresh-cut wood into a spoon, a bowl, and a stool with hand tools alone.

Carve a spoon and a bowl from green woodLearn axe, knife, and gouge work safelyMill craft wood from coppiced oak

What you'll learn

Carve confidently with axe and knife
Read grain and choose the right wood
Sharpen and care for edge tools

What the land gains

Coppiced oak thinned and put to use
A run of craft wood seasoned for the farm

The host site

La Sabina

Treehouses above a permaculture garden in the hills

Oak treehouses look out over a terraced permaculture garden in the Valencian mountains. Spring water runs through the beds and the forest climbs the slope behind, full of timber and wild food.

Your teacher

Sten Halvorsen

Green woodworker & spoon carver

4.9 · 38 reviews · 11 yrs teaching