Woodcarving Club Turns City’s Tree Trimmings Into Treasured Trinkets

Woodcarving Club Turns City’s Tree Trimmings Into Treasured Trinkets

Woodcarving Club Turns City’s Tree Trimmings Into Treasured Trinkets Wooden steins made from the Shipley alder – credit, Dave Watson In Yorkshire, England, an ancient profession turned hobby is helping to keep tree trimmings out of the landfills, among other benefits. The Yorkshire Spoon Club, as the name suggests, will jump at the opportunity to turn an upturned oak or alder tree into a spoon, but this collection of hobbyist and professional woodcarvers churns out far more than just eating utensils. – credit, Liz Watson from the Yorkshire Spoon Club, retrieved from Facebook Meeting once a month in Ellekers Wood, near the small city of Bradford in North Yorkshire, the Yorkshire Spoon Club will quickly turn any municipal tree that’s reached the end of its life into a work project. When Atlantic Storm Amy passed through the area last month and knocked out a mature alder tree in the town of Shipley, club member Clive Nutton took the whole of the tree away after the surgeons had reduced it to l…