CERES Fair Wood has established itself as an honest broker, linking people seeking environmentally and socially responsible timber with small local farm foresters and salvage sawmillers who can struggle to find a market for their resource. While still small in scale, could this social enterprise's local 'chain of custody' approach become a new model for sustainably sourced timber?
Click here to read the Santuary article 'Fair Wood Fair Dinkum Wood' by Sarah Coles
Fair Wood is providing ecologically and socially sustainable timber for all kinds of projects, such as this Macrocarpa pergola. Image: Paul Haar
Retained habitat trees at sugar gum plantation at Mingay, Victoria[/caption]
Read more about Sustainable Timber, in this Sanctuary Article: A knotty Issue