Branch Production was one of eight, three day workshops for industry professionals and academics attending the Robots in Architecture conference jointly held by the University of Toronto, Toronto Metropolitan University and Waterloo University. This workshop taught a 3D-scanning to toolpath optimization workflow, using non-standard timber elements. The timber used were small-diameter beech trunks, affected by a bark-boring insect and fungal infection, harvested from the Haliburton forest. A combination end-effector, consisting of a spindle and a structured light scanner gave the robotic arm both the ability to 'see' the geometry of objects in its workspace, and mill precisely located joinery where needed. A series of parts produced through the workshop aggregated into a small test pavilion that demonstrated the potential of this workflow.