PINE RIVER — Balsam Moon Preserve is offering Wooden Spoon Carving 101 from 1-5 p.m. March 15. Instructor Mike Austad of rural Pine River has been carving spoons for about 10 years, along with a ...

The key to successful woodworking is to use sharp tools. Blades may require a little sharpening, known as “honing,” when making a spoon. Keeping a whetstone or wheel nearby is helpful, but running the ...

Join us for an EPIC 3-day canoe camping trip in Algonquin Provincial Park, where we explore the beauty of the fall foliage. During the trip, we each completed projects: one of us carved a walnut spoon ...

Learn to safely carve wood anywhere on a budget! In this video, Anne shares her experience from running a woodworking school, ...

Many people discovered their inner cook during the pandemic. I unexpectedly discovered my inner woodcarver, making a butter knife. I’m likely not the first person you’d expect to find at a Sunday ...

If you can make kindling, you can carve a spoon. And mastering spoon carving will not only help you make bowls, ladles, and shovels (and musical instruments — big ladles covered with skins and strings ...

It’s thanks to a bad case of the flu that Ethan-James Osborne carves spoons. He was in bed, delirious with a raging fever, when he was struck by what he admits was a rather mad idea: to go outside, ...

This year is Milan Village Arts School's 17th annual Spoon Gathering, which is well-known in the spoon carving and woodworking communities. Artisans come from all over the country to take part. Carved ...

MILAN — The quaint community of Milan once again reigns as a spoon-carving mecca. Impassioned spoon carvers from around the country gathered Thursday to begin more than two days of carving camaraderie ...

Carving wooden spoons isn't a hobby you hear much about, but it's one of many traditional crafts being revived as young people look for ways to slow down and get away from their screens.

Many people discovered their inner cook during the pandemic. I unexpectedly discovered my inner woodcarver, making a butter knife. It wasn't a sharp object, rather something to smooth a dollop of ...