Woodland Pioneers: Ohioneers at Solid Ground

A quarter century ago, a small band of British citizens got together to save the ancient, woodland practices of coppicing, badgering, and greenwoodworking. Through their Woodland Pioneers Program, they have been training professional coppicers as well as introducing amateurs to traditional, woodland crafts.

Pioneer members are coming here to the States this summer, possibly the only time in human history, to bring these skills to the Appalachian Ohio Community through Woodland Pioneers: Ohioneers!

Join us for a weekend long series of workshops to learn how to use a shavehorse, a drawknife, a froe, and a knocker. Don’t know what those things are? No problem! We’ll teach you as we make a woven hurdle panel, a small cleft gate, and treen. We’ll drink loads of tea and eat heaps of cake while learning how to make a wooden bowl on a pole lathe, and more broadly, how to establish a sustainable and regenerative wood plot through the ancient practice of coppicing.

Event fee covers the weekend of workshops, primitive camping, and vegetarian meals.