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The Mass Woodlands Cooperative has 60 members who own forest land in western Massachusetts. Together, our landholdings total over 12,000 acres. All our members manage their forests according to Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) standards, which are the highest standards in the world for responsible forestry. When members harvest wood from their forest, our brand, HomeGrown Wood™, can market this locally grown, FSC-certified wood throughout southern NE as flooring, timbers and rough sawn lumber.

HomeGrown Wood™ conserves forests, improves the quality of working woodlands, sustains the local economy, and provides an important product to the green building community.

Our members are the backbone of our cooperative. Many of them are well known farmers and wood producers in the region, offering items such as woolen textiles, cheeses, honey, grass-fed meats, and produce and flowers, as well as firewood, sawmill services, and timber framing. Learn more about our members by clicking their names to see the products and services they provide as part of their individual business. Your purchase of HomeGrown Wood™ and support for the Massachusetts Woodlands Cooperative helps sustain many individuals and businesses in our community.

If you are interested in joining the Coop to receive the benefits of FSC-certification for your woods, information and referrals to respected foresters and loggers, and a network of individuals who value conservation and the local economy, contact Emily Boss: emily@masswoodlands.coop, 413-397-8800.

These are just some of the members of the Massachusetts Woodlands Coop:

• Bear Meadow Apiary ( Ashfield, MA ) www.massbee.org/services.php?ServiceType=retail&SortOrder=Name&ShowListing=13
  Bear Meadow Apiary features Highland wildflower honey packaged by season; spring, summer and fall. Comb honey. Bee pollen. Beeswax and candles. Lip balm. Spring nucs for sale.

• Bear Path Farm ( Whately, MA ) www.bearpathfarm.com
  Bear Path Farm grows fruit trees (peaches and apples) and runs a large organic composting operation with sales throughout the region.

• Berkshire Natural Resource Council ( Pittsfield, MA ) www.bnrc.net
  Berkshire Natural Resources Council is a non-profit land conservation organization,working throughout the Berkshires to preserve threatened lands with special emphasis on protecting Berkshire's farms, forests, streams and ridgelines.

• Bowman Timber Framing ( Cummington, MA ) www.thetimberframer.com
  Bowman Timber Framing has built over 40 timber frames during the past 18 years, including barns, houses, small entry way frames and porches. They have also repaired old historic timber frames.

• Brook’s Bend Farm ( Montague, MA ) www.brooksbendfarm.com
  Brook’s Bend Farm raises sheep and chickens and markets organic eggs, vegetables, flowers, chemical-free honey and naturally raised grass-fed lamb.  They carry out open-pollinated vegetable seed production and sell Shetland sheep fleece and breeding stock.

• Chase Hill Farm ( Warwick, MA ) www.chasehillfarm.com
  Chase Hill Farm milks 26 organic certified Normande cows to produce cheese. The cows are 100% grassfed and draft horses are used for farming. Raw milk, cheese, beef, whey-fed pork and pasture-raised veal are sold at the Amherst and Greenfield Farmers' Markets, and at area stores.

• Chestnut Farms ( Hardwick, MA ) www.chestnutfarms.org
  Chestnut Farms features a meat CSA with pastured hormone-free pork, lamb, poultry and beef and is constructing a self-contained, 100% off the grid, barn to support community building and educational programming, a farm store and chef demonstrations.

• Cozie Nook Homestead Farm and Florist ( Ashfield, MA ) www.massacorn.net
  Cozie Nook has heritage sheep, pastured chickens, and certified naturally grown vegetables and herbs. They are a full service florist specializing in country arrangements. Seasonal items include mums, pumpkins, gourds and decorated Christmas wreaths in the fall, and heirloom vegetables and herb and flower starts in the spring. Workshops include container gardening, floral arranging, and scarecrow and wreath making. In addition, they operate a Peterson portable sawmill for on-site custom sawing.

• Davenport Maple Farm ( Shelburne, MA ) www.farmfresh.org/food/farm.php?farm=1215
  Davenport Maple Farm has a sugar house and restaurant on Route 2.

• Eagle Eye Institute ( Somerville, MA) www.eagleeyeinstitute.org
  Eagle Eye is a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering urban people from low income communities, especially youth of color, to play a positive role caring for our environment. They develop innovative programs that transform the lives of urban youth; maintain a network of natural resource professionals to lead ‘programs in nature’ and offer trainings and programs for youth development specialists.

• Flower Essences of Fox Mountain ( Worthington, MA ) www.floweressencesoffoxmountain.com
  Flower essences are potentized liquid remedies containing the etheric healing patterns of flowers. They are preserved with brandy (or, for those with alcohol sensitivities they may be special ordered preserved in vinegar), and taken orally a few drops at a time.

• Foxbard Farm ( Shelburne, MA ) http://www.farmfresh.org/food/farm.php?farm=1773
  Foxbard Farm raises and markets grass fed beef, hay, and rough sawn lumber. Foxbard also operates a vegetable farm stand.

• Hall Tavern Farm ( Shelburne Falls, MA )
  Hall Tavern Farm does custom sawing and kiln drying. In addition, they sell posts & beams, wide pine and oak, V-groove, shiplap, tongue & groove, finished flooring. Wide pine floors are a specialty.

• Hickory Dell Farm ( Northampton, MA ) www.hickorydell.com
  Hickory Dell has friendly llamas and markets distinctive annuals and perennials, seeds and starts, hanging baskets, planters, supplies, cut flowers, fall ornamentals, Christmas trees and greens, and unique gifts from their farm store.

• High Hollow Pottery ( Worthington, MA ) www.highhollowpottery.homestead.com
  High Hollow Pottery creates large-scale pieces for the home and garden landscape, including multiple and tiered lids which can be used as winter lids for outdoor pieces, or turned over and used as a birdbath or separately as a fruit bowl.  A line of functional dinner ware and other pieces is also available and special orders are taken.

• Highland Community Lumber ( Williamsburg, MA )
  Highland Community Lumber provides custom sawing of posts & beams and sells both hardwood and softwood lumber.

• Hilltown Land Trust ( Williamsburg, MA ) www.hilltown-land-trust.org
  Hilltown Land Trust is edicated to preserving active farmland and other working properties, saving native plant and wildlife habitats, protecting watersheds, and preserving the scenic and rural character of the Hilltowns of Western Mass.

• Keldaby Farm ( Colrain, MA ) www.keldaby.com
  Keldaby Farm markets Angora Goats, Mohair wool, and woven woolen clothing and operates a bed and breakfast.

• Kelso Homestead Farm ( Huntington, MA ) www.blueberrywine.com/Kelso
  Kelso Homestead Farm raises 15 blueberry varieties and offers 'pick your own' and bluberry products.

• Indian Meadows Farm ( Northfield, MA )
  Indian Meadows Farm sells hay and vegetables.

• Mount Grace Land Trust ( Athol, MA ) www.mountgrace.org
  Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust protects significant natural, agricultural, and scenic areas and encourages land stewardship in North Central and Western Massachusetts for the benefit of the environment, the economy and future generations.

• New England Forestry Foundation ( Littleton, MA ) www.newenglandforestry.org
  The New England Forestry Foundation is dedicated to providing for the conservation and ecologically sound management of privately owned forestlands in New England, throughout the Americas and beyond.

• O'Shea & Porter Draft Horses ( Worthington, MA )
  Mary Beth O'Shea and Kip Porter have draft horses and equipment they use for ecological, low impact horse logging, wagon & sleigh rides and competition pulling.

• Patchwork Farm ( Westhampton, MA ) www.writingretreats.org
  Patchwork Farm features creative writing retreats, yoga workshops and mountainside retreats.

• Pine Shadow Farm ( Leyden, MA ) www.pineshadowfarm.com
  Pine Shadow Farm offers professional timber stand improvement services to owners of small to medium size land parcels.

• Singing Brook Farm ( Hawley, MA ) www.singingbrookfarm.com
  Singing Brook Farm is a privately owned 500+ acre hardwood forest and tree farm offering two winter houses and multiple summer cabins for rent.

• Trustees of Reservations, Notchview ( Windsor, MA )
  www.thetrustees.org/places-to-visit/pioneer-valley/notchview.html
  Notchview offers an idyllic escape for winter sport enthusiasts, especially cross-country skiers, with more than 3,000 acres of rolling terrain. Seventeen kilometers of trails are groomed and track-set for classical cross-country skiing; eight kilometers are groomed for skate skiing and a separate trail system is groomed for “skijoring,” or skiing with dogs. You can also go off track and explore the backcountry, or snowshoe alongside the ski trails.