HatchSpace Launches New Intensive Program

HatchSpace is pleased to launch From Forest to Woodshop, an 8-week, full-time, 300-hour intensive program in wood furniture and products innovation, beginning in September of 2025. Rooted in an integrated approach of study from forest to woodshop, the immersive program offers participants the opportunity to study wood as a material, as well as methods of manipulation that support furniture and product design through sourcing, designing, drawing, cutting, sawing, joining, bending, and glueing. The perfect gap year experience or career-changing accelerator, HatchSpace invites you to spend your fall making something real in Vermont.

The program will be delivered from HatchSpace’s expansive woodworking facility in downtown Brattleboro, a region surrounded by some of the world’s finest hardwood forests. Students benefit from a geography well positioned to gain an understanding of the interconnected field of sustainable forestry and its impacts on wood furniture and products innovation. 

Students will benefit from a wide-ranging team of more than nine experienced and award-winning woodworker educators. Some of the notable instructors include Heather Tauck, who serves as the program lead, is a North Bennet Street School taught custom furniture designer, and Mineck prize-winning greenwood worker and furniture maker, Charles Thompson. Woodworking legend, Garrett Hack will also join, as will the celebrated forester Ethan Tapper, author of “How to Love a Forest.” With such a diverse team of woodworker educators, students are assured to benefit from an equally diverse range of methods in the field. Even Tom Bodett, the celebrated humorist, author and radio personality who is also HatchSpace’s co-founder and a lifelong woodworker, will lead workshops. 

The curriculum includes both traditional and advanced techniques, blending craftsmanship with cutting-edge technology. Through project-based assignments, field trips and a rotating roster of expert instructors, students will develop essential woodworking and design skills. They will also gain hands-on experience with a variety of tools, from hand planes to CNC machines, from milling equipment to laser cutters.

Generous scholarships are available and students leave with a Certificate of Completion. Learn more and apply at hatchspace.org/intensive.