Spoons in the Garden

This paper explores the many ways garden trees have been used historically to furnish the table, logs hewn into trenchers, branches intentionally coppiced or simply pruned, as a renewable living resource and carved into spoons. It also documents my own two-year journey into the culinary potential of species such as walnut, plum, pear, and cherry throughout my neighbourhood that was foraged from the curb or given to me by professional tree trimmers.