The Avocado Boards are live and ready to S H O P > > http://www.avoboards.com/shop [!] Avocado Boards are serving boards for avocados on the half-shell, reclaimed from avocado trees, made by hand, and finished with food-grade mineral oil + wax. Patent pending, and each one is one of a kind. Featured Craft item at the 2015 California Avocado Festival in Carpinteria, CA. This first batch of boards come from an orchard in Malibu, CA, which the fire department had been cutting down over the past seven years for replanting and revegetation. It should be noted that these pieces of wood represent an even greater group of wood brother and wood sisters, who were lost to a warning, violation, and $350 fine from the Park Ranger for "possession of Federal property," in October 2015. This is (most of) the process from tree to package, all that I could film by myself with available stock. Many hours go into each board, from planing and shaving, to sanding and finishing, before it hits the road. Limited availability. More Avocado Salad for all! Music: "Potatoes & chips" by Avocado (https://soundcloud.com/avocadokun/)

Avocado Boards are handmade serving pieces for avocados made from reclaimed avocado trees. These boards hold an avocado that has been halved and removed from its skin for ease of clean-up, dressing, storage, and eating as a salad - without it rolling around all over the place. Created with food retail and restaurants in mind, the Avocado Board has several carved-out semispheres for the ingredients to a deconstructed salad dressing of one's own creation.

Finished with FDA-approved, food-grade mineral oil, the boards are meant to be treated like a good quality cutting board or surface: washed by hand with warm soap and water.

The Avocado Board was sold at the California Avocado Festival in 2015 and 2016 in Carpinteria, CA.

Santa Barbara News-Press interviewed me and shared a bit about the boards on their front page feature on the festival.

Presented to the Men's Garden Club of Santa Barbara (it's not just men anymore!) about the Avocado Board.

Presenter at the 2016 Makers Fair @ PPL in Portland, ME.

Linocut print at 2016 Avocado Festival. Illustration: Matthew Perdoni

The process:

Boards made out of Maine Maple:

Amanda educating and selling at the 2016 Avocado Festival.

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The usage:

The future:

At an organic avocado farm in Guatemala (2016) with Marco and Jesse!