Natalie Nicklett

Annie Collins wrote:Hi Natalie,
This sounds interesting to me. I looked over the website and have a question regarding the classes. I have done many of my own projects and am familiar and have had a lot of practice using most basic power tools. I've built book shelves, privacy fencing, tables, laid wood floors, and have done all sorts of repair jobs around the home that required power tools, etc. I am familiar with and own table saws, reciprocating saws, miter saws, circular saws, have used jigs, levels, squares, etc., and have made many, many trips to lumbar yards over the years to get needed materials. I think the basic carpentry class would not be something I need, but I would be interested in the Natural Building and Tiny House Workshop. My question is if you take into account someone's life experience to allow them to forego the basic carpentry class?
Thanks.

The Tiny House and natural Building class has no prerequisites and you are welcome to register without having taken the basic carpentry class! So, please go ahead and register for that if you feel inspired to.

Just to clarify, though, the Tiny House class is co-ed, not women's only.

Mike Harris,

That's a question we have gotten before, a few times, and I definitely understand the curiosity, as people who want to learn carpentry can be male, female, nonbinary, etc. The desire to learn is genderless and sexless.

We totally support all sexes and genders receiving education in the skills they want. but we find that our school is especially well suited to offering this class as a specifically femme/women/AFAB class.

also, we found (from experience!) that many women/femme identifying folks felt less comfortable/more self conscious taking charge in a co-ed environment. To no fault of any gender/sex in the class! But we made a decision to focus on women/femme carpentry classes to create a class that was a blend of women's empowerment and carpentry education.

hopefully that answers your question!

Hello all! I just wanted to share this fun infographic with y'all. We just did a lot of work writing a post about this and I feel like it could be really helpful for you all.




We will also offer some permaculture courses next year that will cover stuff like this and more, including a brand new Advanced permaculture course (which is super exciting!) that will cover orcharding, earthworks and waterworks over the course of four days. Here is a link to our permaculture classes

Hope you all find this helpful :)

Hello all,

I just wanted to let the Permie world know that we will be hosting Women's Carpentry workshops in 2020 at Wild Abundance, just 25 minutes outside Asheville, NC!

We feel really excited about these tried and true courses that have been providing carpentry foundations and experience to Women. Folks who identify as femme, AFAB, cis, and trans are all welcome! These are four day workshops, with several sessions being offered in 2020. So, if you can't get to one, worry not, there are more chances.

For those who take the Basic Class, there is also a four-day advanced workshop taking place in July.

Also! We offer a Tiny House & Natural Building Class, for all sex/gender identifications. No pre-requisites needed for this course.

Check out our classes here: https://www.wildabundance.net/classes/womens-basic-carpentry/

Thanks for taking the time to read this, y'all! We hope that these classes make carpentry and building more accessible for more people!