Under a wide Broadland sky embark on an enjoyable immersive introduction to spoon carving at Alderfen Marshes. Let your creative juices flow as you select, cut, split, chop and carve your chosen wood into a unique handcrafted spoon. You’ll be shown all the necessary skills required to make your own spoon from green woods, such as coppiced willow, alder and silver birch sourced sustainably from the marshes surrounding you. It’s a mindful process, a million miles from idly scrolling onscreen, out with the sound and scent of the marsh in warm sunlight or cosy under cover with gentle rain pattering on your shelter.

Learn how to choose your wood and use a carving axe to prepare your spoon blank. Then get working with a variety of straight carving knives and hook-knives to shape your spoon. You’ll discover finishing techniques, use of oils and how to care for your new spoon. It’s an outdoor, all weather experience, covered if it’s a rainy day with a welcoming fire bowl to ward off the chill. Considering the wood grain and shaping your spoon is wonderfully tactile, allowing the tree to speak in your hands. Working with green wood is good for wellbeing, using your body to create a beautiful, functional object which tells its own story. Even a rough looking first attempt has its charm. Fabulous for team building or a day to remember with friends, you may discover a new creative hobby bringing you closer to nature.