Started in 2009 by Charles Shackleton and ShackletonThomas, The Naked Table Project brings people together by making tables by hand from locally-grown trees. The project invites groups of about 15 participants to local workshops to make a plain, simple, contemporary family table. The groups follow the process from tree to table, learning about its assembly, designating a replacement tree in the woods from which their table came, meeting the loggers, furniture makers, kiln driers, and everyone else in the table's life cycle, and finally joining together for a community celebration on the finished tables, feasting on locally-grown food together before the table makes it to its final home.