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                        Our major wood supplier is in line with our thinking and purchases only “quality timber from reputable foresters with clients enrolled in Vermont’s Land Use Program requiring 
                        sustainable harvest methods. Learn more about such methods and other wood-related terms in our Glossary.
                        We use only the top grade New England hardwoods for our work.  A few reasons:
                        • We love the subtle colors and grain patterns of our local woods.
                        • We’re pleased that our raw materials have a small carbon footprint.
                        • We enjoy our lumber yard forays, climbing three-story stacks of lumber, sorting through to find the finest-figured grains.
                        We also use some woods from Tom’s brother’s place in the Adirondacks. And we do use some local woods that we’ve collected, had sawn up at a neighbor’s mill, then air-dried—an inch a year. That’s a lot of work, a profession unto itself. We’d rather MAKE things.