Carpentry Coach LLC

Great May project--coaching a family in building a tent platform in their backyard! All four kids ages 8-16 involved, picking up skills fast and pushing the project to completion.

Want a taste of this? Sign up for Creative Carpentry on Sat June 3 to learn tool basics and go home with something you've made yourself. Only 2 spots left!

https://broadforkfarm.net/events/

Monday's Rustic Furniture class was FANTASTIC! Multiple times throughout the day a student would randomly exclaim, "This is SO FUN!" Love the enthusiasm.

Only 3 spots left in Creative Carpentry on Sat June 3, plus lots of wonderful crafting/earth skills options on Sunday June 4 (baskets, fire by friction, bone and antler creations)--register to secure your spot! https://broadforkfarm.net/events/

Hello friends! A reminder that I'm teaching carpentry and crafting the weekend of June 3-4 just south of Richmond! Go home with something you've made yourself that you'll use and love.

- Saturday: Intro to Creative Carpentry
- Sunday: Bones, Baskets and Bowdrill!
- Sliding scale pricing
- Bring a friend, your kid or just yourself
- Worth the drive to hang with other creative people on the beautiful family-operated Broadfork Farm! Camping available

For more details, photos and registration go here or message me!
https://broadforkfarm.net/events/

Another fantastic time at Ix Art Park...Carpentry Coaching two awesome women in building a mud kitchen! If you want to be on my list for helping out with projects like this, shoot me a message. :)

Stay tuned for the finished photos next week...

Carpentry Coach (yup, that's me) is scheduling jobs for late August into the fall! What projects do you need done? What are you itching to learn? What workshops do you want me to schedule? Fill my fall, friends! :)

David had a problem: p**p on his bikes. Lots and lots of bird s**t from the many swallow families who nested for a few months a year in his barn. During peak cycling season, they perform daily perch-n-p**ps on the dozen bikes his family owns and rides regularly. Bummer.

Enter: Carpentry Coach!

David dreamed of a separate bird-proof bike room in the barn, using salvaged doors from his 100 year old farmhouse. I suggested a big sliding barn door so he could still park his car in the barn and not get dinged with a swinging door. And in two days, we accomplished the project! David will slap on some trim and paint to make it look pretty. What a fun project.

Carpentry Coach ran three workshops over the summer: 1) Carpentry for Women participants worked hard to build a potting shed frame for Broadfork Farm! 2) Wildcrafters made pine needle baskets and bone and antler crafts such as rings and knives and 3) Rustic Furniture participants released their creativity during one long day which started by harvesting trees and branches from the forest and ended with awesome stools, tables, thrones and hooks.

Happy to schedule workshops for kids, families or adults--hit me up! :)

You might have noticed that Carpentry Coach has been silent since late May. That is because on June 5, Coach had an unfortunate encounter with a ramp and a creek while on her mountain bike. :)

Recovering from a major injury and accident has taught me lots, most importantly that I love and cherish this body. The healing is going great, thank God. And I am SO STOKED to be back to building things as of a few weeks ago! Check out the posts for the next few days to see what's been shakin'.

Hello hello! I still have some spots available Saturday June 4 for the crafts I'm instructing at Broadfork Farm's

FOLK SCHOOL CRAFTING WORKSHOP!

Make a basket out of poplar bark or reeds or pine needles

Create a bone knife or antler ring or pendant

Learn to make and use your own fire by friction kit

All while taking in the nourishing sights and smells, campfires and community of a family-owned and operated organic farm. It's truly a blast. :)

Go here to sign up! https://broadforkfarm.net/events/

Hello Carpentry Lovers! Back by popular demand...

CARPENTRY FOR WOMEN!

May 20-22 at Broadfork Farm south of Richmond. This workshop is already half full! We will be building 1-2 small structures for the farm...learn the basics of hand tools, power tools, post and beam, rafters and roofs. Walk away confident that you could build your own shade structure, chicken coop, doghouse etc!

Two weeks later I'll follow it up with a...
FOLK SCHOOL CRAFTING WORKSHOP!

June 3-5 also at Broadfork Farm...make a basket out of poplar bark or reeds, create a bone knife or antler ring or pendant, learn to make and use your own fire by friction kit!

Go here to sign up! https://broadforkfarm.net/events/