A worker of the stave mill cuts oak wood into staves at the Tonnellerie Baron, a French cooperage founded in 1875 and maintaining the historic craft of coopering, near the town of Saintes, southwestern France, on March 20, 2024. The stave mill is the process of producing staves, i.e. parallelepipedic, calibrated pieces of split wood with specific dimensions, grain regularities and cutting qualities, which can then be stored and dried naturally for between 24 and 36 months. (Photo by Philippe LOPEZ / AFP)