100% Hand-carved wooden bowl. Higuerilla wood from sustainable managed forests. Kiln-dried. Not suitable for hot liquids and hot food. Bee-wax finish.
Our woods are harvested from managed Amazon Forests in the Central High Peruvian Amazon, where approximately only two trees are harvested per Hectare of Forestland, and then new saplings grow in their place through natural regeneration. This is very different to Northern Boreal Forests, where forests are clear cut, because they are home to homogeneous species, and then the bare land needs replanting. Tropical Rainforests host a much larger variety of biodiversity and have tremendous heterogeneity of tree species within one hectare of forest. Our partner's forest management policy requires that the area of forest harvested every year be different, and therefore the variety of species that are available for harvesting in these ever changing geography of the Palcazu Valley, finds us different species, or even very different characteristic of woods within the same species. Our most common wood is Higuerilla, and an Higuerilla harvested in one location of the valley can have very different colouring and characteristics than another Higuerilla specimen harvested elsewhere.
Sometimes the wood is two tone, sometimes the two tones contrast dramatically, other times the wood is quite light throughout, and the variations keep going.
