Where Can I Learn Carpentry

April 21-24 (Total), May 12-15 (Total), June 16-19 (Full), or July fourteen-17, 2022 (Total), August 11-14(Full), September 1-4(Total)

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PLEASE Annotation: Because our classroom is outdoors and we require masks at close distance, nosotros experience confident that all classes will run in 2022. If atmospheric condition modify and nosotros need to adjust, we will notify students immediately. For more info on classes during covid, come across our refund policy and our protocols and procedures.

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Why Women'south Carpentry?

Let's face information technology: In this civilization, information technology'south much more probable for men to be comfortable with tools and carpentry than women. Simply given the chance to larn, women can exist just every bit proficient as men when it comes to manifesting their ain creative building ideas. Since our bodies are different, and our backgrounds and learning styles are probable unlike, we need a female-oriented infinite, only for ourselves!

This form is intended to respond to that need. It will go women (and other femme-identifying people) up-to-speed on basic carpentry skills, including working with wood, planning and designing uncomplicated projects, and using hand and power tools safely and effectively.

This course is open to all women, including trans and femmes

Focus is placed on creating a safe, comfortable, relaxed and fun learning surround in which students with get-go to intermediate skill levels can thrive. Our goal is to assistance each student learn, rather than to progress projects at a fast pace.

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This class is truly about the basics of carpentry. It'south about learning to use tools and getting comfortable with them past working on some large and small projects. No prior experience is required.

That said, if you have experience, just don't have a mastery over rubber and ergonomic utilise of the table saw, chop saw, round saw, and manus tools, this is likewise the class for you lot. If you're interested in bigger projects, especially structural building, we offer an Advanced Women's Carpentry Form for graduates of the basic class. Anyone who has completed the basic carpentry class will be well prepared for the avant-garde form. Plus, when you sign upward for this more avant-garde class at the same time equally the basic class, y'all get a discount!

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Ladies, fix to tame those mythical beasts (ability tools) and make them function of your building repertoire.

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What to expect: Acquire Basic Carpentry Skills

During this iv-24-hour interval course, we will cover basic carpentry skills through lectures, demonstrations, and lots of hands-on practice.

Topics covered include:

• Safe and effective tool use (including hand and power tools)
• Choosing the right tools for different kinds of jobs
• Authentic measuring and cutting
• Minor projection pattern and planning
• Lumber (wood) selection and purchasing
• Implementation of your own project

This wealth of information volition exist specifically tailored for women'southward learning styles and women'due south bodies. At that place will be ample fourth dimension to dialogue with instructors and get clear most the subject matter. We firmly believe that in that location are no "dumb questions."

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Course Schedule and Timing

Thursday 9:30am-12:30pm and one:30pm-5pm

Fri 9:30am-1:15pm and 2:45pm-5pm

Saturday 9:30am-1pm and 2pm-5:30pm

Dominicus 9:30am-1:30pm and 2:45pm-4:45pm*

Please notation: Some classes will have slight changes in the schedule due to weather condition, the needs of the projects, and the desires of the group. Some students choose to come early on Sunday to commencement their personal projects

* Class ends past 4:45pm on Sunday, and students may leave whenever they finish their personal projects on this 24-hour interval. This tin can be as early on equally 1:30pm if they have time constraints and choose a very simple project. During our lunch break on Sun, nosotros hold a closing circle, which nosotros encourage anybody to stay for, if they're able.

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Twenty-four hours 1: Tools, Tools, Tools

And women'southward empowerment!

Our theme of day one is women's empowerment. To brainstorm, we'll accept an orientation and overview of the form. Then we'll movement into the majority of the twenty-four hours: Tools! Nosotros'll cover tool choices, their ergonomic use, and safety. Each tool will be introduced and demonstrated in detail, then you'll get a chance to effort it yourself (with plenty of guidance and support). When we cover the more intimidating power tools, the class will pause up into three groups so each person can become personalized attention. Whether you're building a birdhouse, bathroom shelves, a wheel shed or a log cabin, having the right tools, and using them properly, makes all the difference.

Tools nosotros'll cover on twenty-four hour period one include:

• Round saw
• Carpenter's pencil
• Measuring tape
• Speed square
• Condom equipment
• Table saw
• Chop saw
• Miter saw and sliding miter saw

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Day 2: More Tools, Project Design, and a Field Trip

Explore more tools, plan out your personal project, and learn to navigate a lumber yard

On day two we'll go our hands on more than tools, learning safe and proper use of:

• Drills for making holes in wood
• Impact Drivers for driving screws *This is always a class favorite…women seem to honey screwing around*
• $.25 for the above-mentioned tools, each of which are quite different

Your Personal Project

On day two, yous'll also cull and design your own small personal project (to exist built on day four). Of course, you'll get plenty of back up and guidance from the instructors. In order to ensure every student'southward success within a specific timeframe, we limit personal projects to a selection of simple objects. You can choose to build a bookshelf, spice shelf, birdhouse, bench/shoe shelf, or a wooden tool carrier. Many of our students come from afar, and therefore choose to build a spice shelf or another small project that tin hands be packed in baggage.

Later lunch, we'll caput to the lumber g to option out materials for everyone'southward personal projects. While nosotros're at that place, we'll explore lumber option, including what kinds of wood are appropriate for different projects, and how to choose a directly board (surprise, not all boards are straight!). Earlier our field trip nosotros'll hash out what kinds of woods are appropriate for different projects, and go over screws and other fasteners, including their application. Equipped with this cognition, everyone will buy what they need for their personal projects, which nosotros'll tackle on mean solar day four.

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Day three: Tools Finale, Plus Hands-on Practise

Get proficient in a real-world application

On day three we'll have our third and terminal tools class. This time nosotros'll cover:

• Levels
• Chalk lines
• Hammers
• Mitt saws

Adjacent, for 3 hours, nosotros'll work in small groups on simple, real-globe projects. Some of these volition be on Wild Affluence infrastructure, others may be for neighbors, community members, or local non-profits. We won't exist trying to get a whole lot accomplished on these projects, only instead will focus on starting to master tools that accept been covered so far in the grade.

These projects vary, based on our infrastructure and community needs at the fourth dimension of course.

Notwithstanding, they're always something real; you lot won't just exist cutting and screwing scrap wood, y'all'll be contributing to building something. We choose group projects and then that students get an opportunity to practice the basic carpentry skills that are the foundation of this class.

Some examples of by grouping projects are:

• Siding on a edifice
• Deck
• Picnic tabular array
• Children's play structure
• Fence
• Rafters and purlins on a roof (merely for students who feel at ease with heights)
• Garden tool hanging structure
• Shelves

During group project work, students volition practice measuring, making cuts, using levels and speed squares, and fastening boards. Beyond the bones apply of tools, we'll also practice working together and getting our hands, minds, and bodies in the groove of doing serious carpentry. These projects are invaluable for getting the basics of carpentry deep into your basic. It'due south one thing to learn most tools, it's something quite unlike to get proficient with them, and that'due south only what students will do during these group projects.

Toward the end of solar day iii, you'll go a risk to cutting out the pieces for your personal project.

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Twenty-four hour period 4: Your own Woodworking Projection

Build your very own rough and simple masterpiece

On twenty-four hours 4, everyone will get to complete (equally schedules let) a woodworking project of their very ain (with lots of support, if they want it)! To do this, we'll reference the designs nosotros solidified on solar day ii, and apply the materials nosotros gathered at the lumber yard and cut on day iii.Throughout the procedure, instructors will circulate to answer questions, provide guidance, and avert disaster. Students will work semi-independently, making use of all the skills and confidence they've been building over the past three days.

Note on Mean solar day 4 End Time:

On twenty-four hours 4, nosotros'll close up the woods shop at 4:45pm (earlier than days 1-three). Individuals volition exist washed with the class when they complete their personal projects (any time between noon and 4:45pm). If you have fourth dimension constraints, nosotros advise you to choose a unproblematic project similar a small bookshelf.

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Enjoy our beautiful outdoor woodshop near Asheville, NC

The Women's Basic Carpentry class "woodshop" is the lovely Wild Abundance homestead campus. During the class, nosotros work in several covered areas amidst our gardens and natural buildings. There, students tin use tools and work on projects with views of the vegetables and mountains. Equally a result, many folks who come up to learn carpentry also get excited nigh the other things we practise here, like permaculture and gardening . Additionally, getting to learn and work in this simple, outdoor woodshop can be very inspiring; y'all don't demand a fancy, dedicated space in order to utilize tools and build beautiful things! Please note: class happens mostly outdoors (under cover), pelting or smooth, any the temperature.

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You lot're but a weekend woodworking class away from building your ideas into reality

You might be request yourself, can I really acquire to build on my own in a weekend woodworking class? And nosotros're hither to tell y'all that, yes, it's admittedly possible! In one long weekend you can get comfortable with tools, understand how to work with wood, and larn how to plan out and pattern your own uncomplicated carpentry projects. We've seen it happen time and once again, with hundreds of satisfied students.

Of course, people spend lifetimes perfecting their woodworking skills, especially those who build houses or practice fine finish work like cabinetry or furniture making. It's not realistic to learn to do these high-level kinds of projects in a long weekend workshop. However, y'all can accept the first steps that every carpenter and fine woodworker in one case took. And you'll go out with the ability to turn your basic ideas into reality, right away.

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Frequently Asked Questions nigh Women's Basic Carpentry

What tools will I learn how to use?

In this basic carpentry class you'll acquire how to properly and safely use the following tools:

• Hammer
• Circular saw
• Table saw
• Chop saw/miter saw
• Bear on driver
• Drill
• Carpenter's pencil
• Measuring tape
• Speed square
• Chalk line
• Level
• Hand saw

I've used some hand tools before, I know how to drive a screw, cut a lath, etc... will this class exist too basic for me?

This is a basics class, but it also covers more than advanced power tools, also as the proper ways to measure out and design. If you lot have some basic skills, just don't experience totally confident in your technique or comfy using bigger power tools, you'll still get a lot out of this course. Consider combining the basic class with our Advanced Women'southward Carpentry Course or Natural Building and Tiny Business firm Workshop if yous desire to really strengthen your structural building skills. If you feel totally confident edifice small to medium projects on your ain, this class may be likewise basic for you.

We used to let women take our Avant-garde Women's Carpentry Form without the nuts course commencement, if they thought that they had enough feel. Fourth dimension later time, nosotros found that these women did not have the foundational safety and ergonomic tool-use skills that the graduates of the nuts class did. As a effect, our confidence in the power of the basics grade has been boosted. It'south articulate that in 4 days so much more than can be taught in this full-bodied class than one might larn in years on her own. Because of this, we are now strict most only letting graduates of the basics class into the Advanced Class .

Will nosotros larn how to build structures/buildings in this form?

You'll learn how to apply most of the tools that are used in structural building, and some of the basic techniques, but this is non a structural edifice course. If you're excited to build buildings, check out our Advanced Women's Carpentry Class (in combination with the basics class) or Natural Building and Tiny House Workshop . The advanced women's carpentry class can be bundled with the bones carpentry class for a discount.

I come across that there are some male instructors for this class, will he "mansplain" to me? Is he patient and understanding?

Our male instructors are all incredibly patient people, experienced and skilled carpenters, and splendid teachers. We are very conscientious in choosing and preparation male instructors who aren't only willing to teach women a basic carpentry form, but who besides feel passionate near women'south empowerment and shifting unfair gender dynamics in carpentry.

Nosotros have never had a complaint about our male instructors' didactics or demeanor. On the contrary, nosotros've had many, many compliments nearly their pedagogy styles, skills, knowledge, and power to work gracefully with our students.

Practise I need to bring whatsoever tools or supplies to the class?

Yes! All the tools and materials nosotros ask yous to get a hold of for this class will continue to be useful later on as you practice and hone your carpentry skills. This does not mean that you accept to spend hundreds of dollars on the tools required to accept the class. If yous merely get the bare bones, you could spend $25. Or, you could choose to borrow tools from friends or family members. If you get all the required and optional tools, and choose the all-time brands of all of them, then you could be talking large bucks — and an awesome toolkit. Check out our list of both required and optional tools/supplies here .

Will I acquire how to design my own projects, or but exercise projects that already have plans/designs?

You lot will get a chance to blueprint your ain elementary woodworking project during the class, with lots of support. This includes envisioning your project in space, choosing the thickness and type of woods that'due south appropriate, choosing fasteners, making measurements, determining lath-feet needed, etc.

If you prefer to work with a done-for-you design, that'south an option, too. In that instance, y'all could choose a project design that is identical to the instance projects presented during class. Doing this means all the math will be done for y'all.

Will I larn how to make furniture in this class? Volition I be able to brand piece of furniture after taking this class?

Our most popular personal projection over the years has always been a bookshelf. Students have also made benches, shoe shelves, and other simple, rustic furniture. Yous'll gain the skills to design and build custom piece of furniture in this class, but it won't exist fancy. This is not a fine woodworking class that covers super-tight joinery or wood finishing.

Is this a physically intensive class?

This form is accessible to students of moderate physical strength and energy. Role of the purpose of a women-just carpentry class is to teach in a way that makes carpentry accessible to people with dissimilar degrees of forcefulness and concrete prowess. We've had students from a wide range of ages and physical abilities thrive in the class. Throughout the days, there are lots of opportunities to drinkable water, eat snacks, and accept breaks. It is worth because that our campus is hilly and rustic, and not attainable to folks with certain disabilities. Read more about our campus hither .

What'due south the boilerplate historic period of students in this class?

We've had a wide range of students take this course. The boilerplate age of students has been around 45. That beingness said, our oldest student was 74 and our youngest pupil was a teenager. We unremarkably go well-nigh 35% of students who are over fifty, twoscore% between 35-50 and 25% nether 35. The nature of this form is very inclusive and supportive, regardless of historic period or other differences that students might have.

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"This was the all-time workshop I have always participated in. I am planning on taking more than at Wild abundance. I take much more confidence and the skills I learned are invaluable to me, every bit I live solitary and hate to depend on someone for simple carpentry needs."

Dannie Piped
Women'southward Bones Carpentry Student

"I've e'er been drawn to building and carpentry, only I've never had the basics explained to me in a coherent, hands-on fashion. The Women's Basic Carpentry Form at Wild Abundance was the perfect incubator for my skills and conviction. The teachers were genuine, enthusiastic, and so willing to share their difficult-earned cognition and wisdom. One of the most valuable things I learned was how to exist realistic with my plan—how to slow down on the forepart end and invest a bit more than time into planning my projects so I tin be more efficient and productive equally I begin to build. I highly recommend this grade."

Jocelyn Mosser, Marshall, NC
Professional Counselor
Women'due south Basic Carpentry Educatee

"Thanks to you I now have an affect driver and drill kit, a skill saw, speed and carpenter squares. I've finished my offset project! This was immensely gratifying. My dad and husband helped me on the roof but I did the rest myself. I hope you're well and I tin can't thank you enough. I love my scooter shed!"

Annie Sellick, TN
Nashville Jazz Vocaliser
Women'due south Basic Carpentry Student

"I recently finished the Basic Carpentry Course at Wild Abundance and was diddled abroad. I'm not certain exactly what I had expected, just my expectations were exceeded.

We were trained how to use all the tools safely and were coached as we tried. In the form we were taught exactly how to mensurate, marking, and cut with the appropriate tool.

I was surprised by the age spread of the participants. We had students from fourteen to seventy, and I enjoyed all the esprit. Anybody was willing to help others, then each person's skill level simply added to the learning process. The days were intense, but each person could work at her own pace.

The instructors were very hands-on and patient. Some students arrived concerned that they didn't know as much equally others, but no 1 left feeling intimidated. The students and teachers alike were encouraging and kind, and everyone finished the class feeling more confident and skilled. Overall, it was a great experience, and I recommend this course to anyone who wants to exist more capable of handling projects and skilled at preparing for and executing them."

Patty Rhodes,Greenville SC
CEO of manufacturing company
Women's Basic Carpentry Student

"I took both the Basic & Advanced Women'due south Carpentry workshops in the summer of 2019 and am so glad I did! I had spent some time going through the motions of buying my first home, and after lots of searching, it was clear that I'd either have to settle for something I didn't even really like a whole lot or build information technology myself! And with that realization, I got a real bad itch to build my ain home that all at once, became equal parts exciting and overwhelming. Basic carpentry seemed like the most logical place to starting time. 🙂

I didn't realize how much I was going to enjoy the fact that the workshops were just for women. I felt that it created a softer, more supportive, open, and uniquely empowering learning environment. Our instructors Natalie, Barron, and Ella were all incredibly knowledgeable and helpful. Their various experiences and styles only added to the wealth of information beingness shared and fabricated for a very well-rounded learning experience. I felt the projects tackled were too diverse plenty to serve different skill & comfort levels. (I was even given several opportunities to challenge a wee fear of heights. Bonus!) And overall, at that place was an incredibly refreshing and rewarding balance of hands-on instruction and space to figure it out on your own, which I believe is ane of the best ways to learn. The campus is so beautiful, the food is especially delicious, and the learning is so good! I'thou and then excited to be one pace closer to edifice my own abode someday! Thank you!"

Sass Ayres, Asheville NC
Restaurant General Manager
Women'south Combined Carpentry Student

"I was really surprised and pleased at HOW MUCH I enjoyed this form. I expected it to exist Darned Good and for me to learn a bunch. What I experienced was that it was really really well planned, well orchestrated, and I left having both had a fantastic time (loads of laughter) and feeling deeply empowered . The setting of only beingness with women freed me up to ask "stupid questions" and feel anything but stupid. Within a few moments of getting parked and starting grade, Natalie handed us balanced and thoughtful schedule, which I actually need to feel relaxed (to know when I can rest and settle in and the similar). The meals were nourishing and beautiful. The facility was inspiring and well-kept. And perhaps best of all, the teachers were patient, skilled and supportive. I loved information technology then much that I would do information technology over again in a heartbeat, both to brush up on my skills and solidify them more deeply, too as to enjoy the beautiful space and esprit."

Karen
Women's Basic Carpentry Student

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Instructors

Natalie Bogwalker

Natalie (she/her) is the visionary backside Wild Abundance, as well every bit a main instructor for women's carpentry classes and the Natural Edifice and Tiny House Workshop, amid other classes. She's passionate near teaching and sharing practical skills to aid all kinds of people feel more confident, empowered, and capable. In detail, Natalie gets excited nigh: ...

Ella Scotto

Ella (she/her) took a carpentry course with Wild Abundance in 2017. Subsequently that, she bought an acre of state in Barnardsville, NC, and began building a house. For over a year, she worked with Barron Brownish, learning everything she could nearly carpentry and construction. Ella is always eager to learn more, and is constantly honing her ...

Ellie Richards

Ellie Richards (she/her) is an artist living and working in Penland, North Carolina, she is the woods studio coordinator at Penland Schoolhouse of Crafts.  Her work, both furniture and sculpture, are exhibited widely including recent juried exhibitions at the Mint Museum,  the Center for Arts and crafts, Creativity, and Blueprint, SOFA Chicago, and the Society of Gimmicky ...

Alex Kilgore

Alex (he/him) has been learning and educational activity primitive and traditional living skills since 1995. He began with a formative apprenticeship with Steve Watts, the founder of the Gild of Archaic Technology and managing director of the Aboriginal Studies Program at the Schiele Museum of Natural History.  In 1997, Alex completed his caste in Outdoor Experiential Educational activity ...

Danielle Swift

Danielle'due south (she/her) career in construction officially started at 15 with a summer task as a laborer working for her uncle'southward design/build firm in Maryland. She continued acquiring building experience and tools through college, ultimately graduating from SCAD with a main's degree in Compages and a dual BA in Architecture and Historic Preservation. She went on ...

Nadi

Nadi (they/them) has been on a quest to study traditional woodworking, metalworking and ancestral skills ever since leaving backside their Aerospace Engineering path in Germany where they grew up. While attending University in Germany they turned an old early 1900s circus trailer into their showtime tiny habitation they lived in for the duration of their ...

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Class Location

This class is held in Barnardsville, at the Wild Abundance dwelling house campus

The Wild Abundance home campus is a beautiful and diverse permaculture homestead, about 25 minutes north of Asheville. You lot'll receive detailed directions on how to get here upon registration. This is where Wild Abundance founder and director Natalie Bogwalker lives with her family. Information technology's nestled amidst a handful of other homes in a small customs on a curt gravel road. If y'all're attending a class hosted at Wild Affluence, you lot will probable also traveling on field trips or going to other nearby sites for builds.

Please annotation: our campuses are all unconventional, with rustic amenities and uneven ground. Read more about our campuses here .

Local Accommodations and Facilities

Wherever you're coming from, y'all're welcome to pitch a tent in 1 of our apartment camping spots in the forest or field, or to tie a hammock in the wood on our seven-acre property. If you live locally, you may prefer to commute to Wild Abundance from Asheville (25 minute drive). If you cull to camp, please bring your ain bedding and rainproof tent or tarp. In the early bound and late fall it can be cold at night, so please bring warm bedding if you lot'll exist hither before May or later September. Nosotros have a lovely outdoor kitchen equipped with a stove and running water, an outdoor shower, and an outhouse bachelor to campers.  In extremely cold weather, the sink and shower may exist out of operation due to water freezing.

If you prefer something with more animal comforts, we suggest you lot browse Airbnb for numerous options shut to the campus. You can also check out local motels and B&Bs inside a 10-15 minute drive to Wild Abundance. Nosotros'll ship a listing of links to several options (with varying civilities and prices) in a welcome alphabetic character upon registration.

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Registration Info

Go on the waitlist to hear virtually the next open sessions of this class

You'll besides receive our regular newsletters.

We strive to brand our classes attainable to those who wish to learn. Please pay on the sliding scale what you tin afford, given your income.

April 21-24 (Full), May 12-15 (FULL), June 16-19 (Full), or July 14-17, 2022 (Full), August 11-14(FULL), September 1-4 (Total)

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Pricing for Women's Bones Carpentry

Regular Pricing:$850 – $1,360

Please pay what y'all can afford.  The median toll is suggested to assistance cover the full cost of hosting this class. Please select the low end of the sliding calibration if you are low income. If your household income is over $80,000/year, delight select the maximum fee.  Delight place yourself in this range where you lot deem appropriate, based on your income.

Pricing for Women'southward Carpentry Package

Includes Basic and Advanced Women'due south Carpentry

Regular Pricing: $i,600 – $2,560

Please pay what you lot can afford.  The median price is suggested to aid comprehend the full cost of hosting this class. Delight select the low end of the sliding scale if you are low income. If your household income is over $eighty,000/year, please select the maximum fee.  Please place yourself in this range where y'all deem appropriate, based on your income.

Delight note that our Advanced Women's Carpentry Form is but available to those who have already taken the Women's Basic Carpentry Grade. We will be running an Advanced Carpentry class sessions on July 21-24 or October 19-23, 2022.

The following are included in the price of the class: pedagogy, optional camping, and facility use (kitchen, outhouse).

To annals, delight complete the online registration by clicking on the "Annals Now" button to a higher place and then make your payment. Registration will be processed upon receipt of payment.

Expect to receive a confirmation electronic mail within i week of sending payment. Additional emails volition cover logistical details as the date approaches.

Click here to come across our policies on refunds, payment plans, and scholarships.

Also, experience free to read our Oft Asked Questions.

Source: https://www.wildabundance.net/in-person-classes/womens-basic-carpentry/

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