Zero Waste Handtool Woodworking lessons

Within the community art space of Dear Tomorrow, I am building a small, focused woodworking lesson program—and it’s just the beginning. With sessions selling out and persistant positive feedback and encouragement , our small community art center will revive the art and joy of using hand powered tools to work wood and teach the design language of woodcraft not as a consumable product, but an applicable skill. Another tool in the lifestyle toolkit.

The goal is togather up to 10 people a few nights a week to share the art of how to use hand tools in a zero waste setting: how to shape wood, cut joinery, and build useful things with their own hands in a manner that does not contribute to landfill waste. These skills are scalable to producing seating, table and shelving and many other solutions for lifes problems ( like where to keep a toothbrush without getting residue on the counter) from wood thats all too often discarded due to lack of imagination or motivation to resuse. No machines, no shortcuts, no synthesized petrochemicals—just attention, patience, and craft. We use salvaged wood, traditional tools, and simple techniques. All items will be reused in a closed loop: shavings can be mulched, mixed with beeswax as firestarters, packaging peanut replacements. Used organic cotton rags can be composted as any finishes saturating them will be carefully selected for their nontoxic and garden friendly nature. Cutting and joing wood with hand tools is only a small part of the broader lesson to be learned:how to mindfully adapt to your envirnment without falling into the typical trappings of normalized american concumerism.

This school is the first piece of a larger mission: to fund and fuel a general contracting business grounded in honest craftsmanship, non-toxic materials, and durable design. In an industry driven by speed and cost-cutting, I’m building a different model—one that respects both the material and the person using it.

Right now, I have the momentum—but not the time or infrastructure to scale it up. I’m asking for your support to extend my runway and solidify the foundation:

These steps allow me to build steady, independent revenue through teaching, events, and digital products—while continuing to develop my core contracting operation in parallel.

If you believe in building with care, teaching with intention, and reshaping an industry that needs it—help me launch this.

$20, $50, $100—every contribution counts.

This isn’t just about woodworking classes. It’s about proving there’s a better way to build—and live.

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I am deeply invested in sharing this ethos as i personally have found deep satisafaction sustainable carpentry, not as a trade but a lifestyle I want nothing more than to share the years of reading, experimentation, professional design and joy of building in a mindful manner with the community.

Thank You-

Chase