Business Spotlight

November / December Business Spotlight:

Stackworks Custom Woodcraft

 

 

The Skamania EDC would like to welcome Eamon & Audrey Stack, owners of Stackworks Custom Woodcraft to our Business Community in Skamania County! If you are looking for a CUSTOM project or have a new project give them a call!

 Eamon and Audrey started building custom wood projects as a business 3 years ago, but that was far from their business start. Before that, they began the Ascension Rock Club, a climbing gym in Fairbanks Alaska in 2015. Running the gym gave them many owner/manager skills. However, it didn’t satisfy their need to build or be creative. Once the gym was constructed it wasn’t feasible to build another one.
 
Eamon found himself building forms, tables, benches, and the like for the gym and enjoyed the creativity, design, and construction of the projects. During his gym ownership, Eamon had built a wood shop behind the climbing walls and it was starting to be obvious that a new business was in order!
 
In October 2020, Eamon and Audrey sold their ownership in the gym and started a full-time wood shop. They still made wood projects for the gym, but now they were able to build a wider variety of new projects. They tackled everything from small
cutting boards to a 30-cabinet custom kitchen.
Each project is individually designed to fit the customer’s needs, so they never create the same build twice. Eamon and Audrey relocated to Stevenson in the summer of 2023 to be closer to family as well as to satisfy their sense of adventure.
They packed up the wood shop in a trailer and hauled it 2,500 miles. Now that they are here in the gorge they are taking on new projects with new challenges.
Eamon and Audrey have completed far too many projects to discuss them all here, but a few standout favorites are included in the video and are described as:
They are always looking for the next challenge!
Bring them your ideas for awkward spaces or to revise that out-of-date kitchen.  They will take a look at any challenge with a wooden solution.  Give us a shout and we will help you square it up.
 
Give them a call or reach out to them Online via
Email: stackworkscustom@gmail.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stackworkscustom
Instagram: https://instagram.com/stackworkscustom?utm_source=qr

October Business Spotlight:   Nature’s Wild Harvest

Welcome to Skamania County,   In 2022 Bill and Laura Cole opened  Nature’s Wild Harvest Market at 1262 Smith-Beckon Road in Carson WA.  With Bill’s years of experience in foraging and selling wild harvested products at farmers markets and specialty food stores all over Portland OR and Vancouver WA for over 25 years, they decided that once they retired they would like to follow their dream to open a brick-and-mortar store. All products offered must be either wild-foraged or organically grown in a sustainable manner without chemicals.

They have always loved the Gorge and they decided that moving to Carson was an excellent way to follow their passions and be close to the woods that Bill loves so much. Seasonal fresh and dried mushrooms and mushrooms. They offer a variety of raw, local honey with a variety of colors and unusual flavors like carrot and pumpkin.   They also offer herbs, fresh micro-greens, small-batch nettle teas, and more.  Seasonal fresh mushrooms, dried mushrooms, and mushroom seasonings make up much of the store. Wild mountain berries such as huckleberries, elderberries, and rosehips are available in season and year-round frozen or made into yummy jams & syrups.  The health benefits of most of the items they sell are a large part of why they do what they do. Wild foods are true superfoods, Laura likes to say.

Along with their Dept of Agriculture and food processing licenses, Bill is still a commercially licensed harvester, and he loves what he is doing and plans on doing it as long as he is able.  Laura maintains the office side of things like bookkeeping, designing and marketing, labels, inventory, and packaging, and runs their little store.

Bill worked for the Port of Portland for thirteen years in the navigation division, dredging a pipeline for the Columbia River, and eventually opened his own heavy equipment welding business.    His passion for this hobby and side gig of foraging goes way back to his childhood on a farm in southern Oregon with his parents.   Laura has a marketing background and at age 45 decided it was time for a change so she went back to college for a social services degree.  She has worked with young mothers who were dealing with addiction issues and as a case manager with the aging & disabled. She joined Bill full-time in Nature’s Wild Harvest in 2019.

Nature’s Wild Harvest store is open Saturdays & Sundays from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm (or by appointment).

1262 Smith Beckon Rd., Carson WA 98610.

Visit them online at https://natureswildharvest.com/.