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19-635: The charity was launched at the Victoria & Albert Museum in March 2010, with a membership programme for supporters. Its founders included Robin Wood MBE (professional wood turner and co-founder of Spoonfest with Barn the Spoon ), Patricia Lovett MBE (professional scribe, calligrapher and illuminator) and current executive director Daniel Carpenter. Heritage Crafts initiated a 30-minute adjournment debate on

38-605: A cafe and shop selling farm-reared meat and eggs as well as vegetables grown on-site was opened. It is open to the public six days a week. There is a Farmers' Market every Saturday. It is the home of The Green Wood Guild, a green wood and traditional woodworking craft workshop run by Barn the Spoon . In January 2023, Stepney City Farm were one of the two city farms featured in the Lambeth Country Show edition of BBC One's afternoon programme The Farmers' Country Showdown . In 2010 Crossrail took over approximately

57-795: A display of some of his spoons in the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, Massachusetts and his spoons have also sold in the Conran shop in Tokyo. In 2016 Carder and Robin Wood joined Stevie Parle during London Craft Week to explore wood-fired cooking and how dining from wooden utensils can affect the experience of eating. Carder has been described by the press as "legendary" and it has been said that "No one in Britain knows more about crafting

76-408: A spoon from green wood than Barn the Spoon". In May 2017 following the release of his book, Carder announced the lease on his shop is to expire and he hopes to leave London to be closer to nature. He launched a '1000 spoons' project where he intends to carve 1000 spoons from a single tree, using any profits to plant and maintain his own woodland. Carder teaches spoon and bowl carving at his shop on

95-535: A third of the Farm's site as part of the works to build a rail transport link connecting east and west London. This work was scheduled to end in 2018 with the land returned to the farm. In January 2011 Crossrail opened up an archaeological dig at the construction site on the farm. A ventilation shaft next door to the farm leads down to one of the largest mined caverns in Europe. In mitigation Crossrail worked closely with

114-505: Is an annual international festival of spoon carving that has been held in Edale , Derbyshire since 2012, with 200 people attending in the first year. Stepney City Farm Stepney City Farm is a city farm in Stepney , London, England. It is situated on Stepney Way with its entrance on the roundabout leading onto Stepney High Street and Belgrave Street towards Limehouse. The land

133-516: Is believed to be the etymological root of spoon. In it Carder shows techniques and the appropriate use of tools used in creating different types of spoon. Carder explains the need to think in three dimensions, as with other forms of sculpture, and has said "Perfection is always just a spoon away." Carder is co-founder of Spoonfest with Robin Wood MBE (trustee and ex-chairman of the Heritage Crafts Association ). Spoonfest

152-544: Is owned by Tower Hamlets Council through a trust , "The King George's Fields Trust" chaired by the Mayor of Tower Hamlets . The farm was founded in 1979 by Lynne Bennett; at that time it was called Stepping Stones. Local residents, schools, churches and community groups were consulted and wasteland left after a World War II bomb destroyed the Stepney Congregational Church in 1941 was secured for

171-766: The Hackney Road and has run courses at various other venues around the UK including Stepney City Farm , Tate Britain , the Pitt Rivers Museum and Heal's . In May 2017 Carder published his first book, a spoon carving guide entitled Spon: A Guide to Spoon Carving and the New Wood Culture published by Penguin Books . 'Spon' refers to the Anglo-Saxon English word for a wood chip which

190-727: The Spoon (born 1981), is a British artisan spoon carver, teacher, author and co-founder of Spoonfest, the annual international festival of spoon carving in Edale in Derbyshire, UK. He is also founder of the Green Wood Guild, a collective of green wood carvers who run carving workshops and owns a spoon shop and woodworking venue in Hackney in London's East End . Carder also teaches spoon carving, woodworking and bladesmithing (with master smith Nic Westermann). Carder

209-410: The bowl of the spoon), and small carving knife. The wood is sourced locally from parks in and around London and is recycled from trees which have been removed for conservation reasons. Carder states that a single spoon can take him from twenty minutes to two hours to carve. He opened his Hackney Road shop at the end of 2012 and carves in the shop window, where people often stop to watch. Carder has

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228-497: The cows' grazing field became unavailable as a result of Crossrail construction. The cows were offered a permanent home at Hillside Animal Sanctuary , but there was a problem with moving them there as they had not been registered properly at birth by the original charity, as has been a legal requirement by the British Cattle Movement Service for all cattle born in the UK since 1 July 1996. A campaign

247-528: The farm to allow the existing animals to remain by making major improvements to the farm, especially the drainage of the fields and building a large barn for overwintering the animals and a rural arts building to house the farm's craftspeople. The farm officially opened these buildings on 8 September 2012. The farm's bull and cow Lloyd and Leila were featured in Strictly Come Dancing with Nancy Dell'Olio and Anton du Beke in 2011. In 2013

266-536: The farm was technically the legal and financial responsibility of Tower Hamlets Council but is now run by a charity , "Stepney City Farm Ltd", with a 10-year lease as from 2012 (registered in June 2010 as Charity Number 1136448). The farm also runs workshops in rural crafts through its resident artisans ; blacksmith , woodworker and potter . In 2011, the farm created an 800 square metre community garden and added low-cost growing boxes for community use. In May 2013

285-537: The farm's use. The site has been through several incarnations since the 17th century. Worcester house (locally known as King John's Palace) was an original building from which ruins remain onsite, and the remains of the old Sunday school and the Stepney meeting house can be seen. Known as the Stepping Stones Farm up until 2009 under the management of Lynne Bennett, the 4.2-acre. From 2009 to 2012

304-695: The forests, sourcing green wood . It was while living in the woods he began to carve and then sell spoons for a living travelling between Oxford and Bristol, finding that the spoons sold better in cities. Carder holds an official pedlar's licence for this purpose. Carder is founder of The Green Wood Guild, London's school of traditional woodwork, based at Stepney City Farm . The guild provides courses in woodworking, carving, whittling and bladesmithing and runs two regular clubs, Whittlers Anonymous and Spoonclub. Carder uses freshly cut (green) wood and traditional techniques to carve his spoons, usually using an axe, spoon knife (a curved bladed knife for hollowing out

323-639: The state of traditional crafts in the House of Commons in June 2009. In May 2017, in association with The Radcliffe Trust, the Association published the Red List of Endangered Crafts , which was repeated again in 2019, 2021 and 2023, when it was funded by The Pilgrim Trust . This publication was also covered on Woman's Hour . In 2020, the charity's patron, King Charles III (then Prince of Wales ), launched The President's Award for Endangered Crafts, which

342-736: Was born in Oxford in November 1981 and grew up in Berkshire . At the age of 12 a neighbour introduced him to woodturning by showing him how to make bowls and soon he had a lathe in the garage of his parents' house. He graduated from Bristol University with a degree in biology, intending initially to become a biology teacher before becoming apprenticed to a cabinet maker. After apprenticing himself to green wood worker Mike Abbott in Hereford , he then spent 3 years working in forestry and living in

361-531: Was won in 2020 by Ernest Wright scissor makers, in 2021 by watchmaker Dr Rebecca Struthers and in 2022 by pargeter Johanna Welsh. The patron of Heritage Crafts is King Charles III , confirmed by the patronages review that followed the royal succession , in a continuation of the presidency role he had fulfilled as Prince of Wales since 2013. Ambassadors include: Barn the Spoon Barnaby Alexander Carder , known as Barn

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