Date: September 26, 2026, 9:00 am – 4:30 pm

Instructor: Wild The Woodworker

Location: Paonia, CO (Menagerie Woodworking Studio – See Map)

Level: Beginner (No experience needed)

In this class, you’ll create a three-legged wooden stool while learning the basics of working with local wood rather than standardized dimensional lumber. Working with hardwood and fruitwood harvested in western Colorado, you’ll cover: harvesting and processing wood pieces, stripping bark with a draw-shave, techniques for adjusting the final appearance based on different layers of the legs, preparing a disc for the stool top, joining the legs to the top, and sanding and finishing the piece using natural oils and resins. At the end of the, you’ll go home with a unique 3-legged stool made from all-local wood!

Our woodworking teacher, Wild, creates beautiful furniture out of gnarled fruitwood, using pieces that aren’t considered to be usable by most carpenters. All of his wood is collected from our local forests and orchards in western Colorado, prioritizing wood that is discarded from other projects like orchard pruning. Every furniture piece is unique, shaped around the contours of the wood.

This class coincides with Paonia’s Mountain Harvest Festival, and Saturday night there are free concerts in town park! Lodging in town is likely limited, but participants in this workshop can camp at our educational farm in Paonia Friday and Saturday nights for $15 per night. (This offer is not open to the general public). Please contact us after signing up for more info.