WIRKSWORTH, England (Reuters) - On a two-acre field in England's Midlands, Gavin and Alice Munro are taking sustainability to the next level: they harvest trees which they train to grow into chairs.

After 10 years of fastidious work, Zhang Weiren, a fruit grower in Laixi of Qingdao, East China's Shandong province, has been able to grow peach trees into the shapes of tables and chairs. The price ...

Harvested tree, which has been growing for six years into the shape of a chair, lies on the ground in Wirksworth WIRKSWORTH, England (Reuters) - On a two-acre field in England's Midlands, Gavin and ...

Make a Chair From a Tree presents an informative history of chairmaking and joinery. Author J. Alexander brings the old method of using wood shrinkage to join parts back to modern woodworking, from ...