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Handmade in Cordova, Illinois

Made to be kept.

Boards, signs, and furniture worked by hand from solid wood in our farm workshop. Built slow, finished with oil, sent on to your table.

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Decor · Hard maple, Cherry, Black walnut

Page holder

A thumb ring that holds a paperback open one-handed, cut as a dog, a cat or a plain wing in maple, cherry or walnut.

$8 In stock

Kitchen · Hard maple, Padauk

Rooster cookbook stand

A maple stand with a padauk rooster on top and a kitchen conversion chart burned into its face.

$80 Made to order · 4 wks

Kitchen · Black walnut, Hard maple

Walnut and maple deviled egg tray

Fourteen wells in dark walnut with a wave of pale maple running through the middle.

$50 Made to order · 3 wks

Kitchen

The South Farm Board Butter

A 2 oz tin of food-grade board butter, beeswax, mineral oil, carnauba wax and lemon oil, that seals an oiled board and sheds water.

$8 In stock

Kitchen · Ash

Ash deviled egg tray

A deviled egg tray in plain white ash with a handle, the wells cut in rows.

$40 Made to order · 3 wks

Kitchen · Black walnut, Hard maple, Cherry, Padauk, Purpleheart

Chaos board

An end-grain board glued up from offcuts of five woods, so no two are ever alike.

$100 In stock One of a kind

1 of 6

Two walnut boards on the workbench, with a rack and the lumber pile behind

Our story

“A board should feel like it was made for your kitchen, because it was.”

We work one piece at a time in a shop on the south side of the farm. Most of the wood is local, some of it came down in a storm, and all of it gets planed, joined, and oiled by hand.

Dec 5

Next event

UTHS Holiday Craft and Vendor Show 2026

United Township High School · East Moline, Illinois