Spoons

Handcarved ash spoons began as a way to use the offcuts from larger projects. We are also making spoons from green wood harvested during our coppicing experiments.

Each spoon is accompanied by the following statement:

This spoon was carved from the wood of an ash tree that was killed by the Emerald Ash Borer. 

Before you eat with it, we hope you will take a moment to observe the growth patterns and note how many years it took for this small piece of wood to form. 

Making this spoon was an intimate act, a humble process undertaken to deepen our connection with a species in collapse.    

Eating with it is also an intimate act. As you consider the flavor, texture, and aroma of the food you consume with this spoon, we hope you will also consider the somatic contact you are having with what was once part of an active system for moving nutrients through a tree.

Each spoon is numbered to index discoveries from the making. The numerals are burned into the wood. As the ruined forest decomposes, our supply of viable ash wood will end, and the count will stop.