DRAFTWOOD
LOG HOMES
From
the Turman Log Home Company
We
are excited to have this opportunity to develop our methods of restorative
and therefore sustainable forestry through market driven change. Since
our efforts have been about source sensitive harvesting longer than
the "Green Certified" movement has been around we are very happy to
have earned this unique place in the Turman Log Homes product line
and a market share for "Green Certified" forest products.
We
have a long term relationship with the Turman Family and their group
of forest products processing facilities. Over the years our HHFF
restorative forestry practitioners have collectively sold millions
of board feet of logs to their many sawmills throughout the region
of southwestern Virginia. Company founder and patriarch, Michael Turman
has been very supportive of our work for years. This family gives
back to the community in many ways. The Turman Group of industries
has grown tremendously in the last couple of decades. They are the
largest volume processor of softwood in the state of Virginia. They
also have become one of the largest kiln dry operations in the Eastern
United States. Turman produces hardwood flooring at their plant in
Galax, Virginia. The Turman Log Home division in Carroll County, Virginia
specializes in kiln dried Eastern White Pine log home kits and construction.
They are using state of the art processing of kiln dried logs to build
one of the best log homes in the world. We are happy to work with
them to support our approach to restorative forestry and sustainable
community development. They have offered us the opportunity to supply
the material for five log homes or approximately 10% of their production
capacity. This is a very big deal for our practitioners. Our plan
is to use the "source differentiated identity" of DRAFTWOOD to further
support the ground level workers of restorative forestry which is
accomplished through modern horse logging operations. The DRAFTWOOD
brand name means horse logged lumber from restorative forestry. This
brand name was given to the Healing Harvest Forest Foundation to promote
the organization and support the workers. Any commission from these
sales will be used to support ground level workers through Healing
Harvest Forest Foundation and the development of a self insurance
program for the workers and to further the marketing of DRAFTWOOD
forest products.
Now
the challenge is to sell the homes to consumers who want not only
the best log homes money can buy, but ones that comes from the best
environmentally sensitive forestry. It allows the consumer the opportunity
to support environmental protection with their purchasing power. This
is what we consider "Ecological Capitalism", where those that practice
the best care of the ecosystem are paid fairly for the quality of
services they provide. We will be working on marketing the DRAFTWOOD
Turman Log Home in the future through our web site and any other media
we can attract. Stay tuned to our website for further developments.
We also will give you the web site address for Turman Log Homes. You
may visit their site to see their wonderful finished products and
the endless options for styles and types of homes. If it can be done
with logs, they can do it.
They
have given us the opportunity to market through this truly community-based
sustainable forestry program. They are wise to recognize that if they
offered this "green" product on their web site they may be overwhelmed
by demand that we can't meet with our current production levels. It
would be like leaving your porch light lit on Halloween night and
not having any candy. That would be the house kids may throw eggs
at.
In
other markets the lack of supply would automatically mean an increased
price. This is not the case with DRAFTWOOD Log Homes from the Turman
Log Home Company. So we are doing the marketing to get this started.
The fact is that there is a limited supply of logs harvested using
our restorative forestry methods and that may be the gist of actually
being sustainable over the long term in the real world. If you know
anyone wanting to build a great log home that comes from truly unique
sustainable forestry, tell them about this wonderful opportunity.
Please have any potential home buyers contact us for more information
about our forestry and this great opportunity to support good environmentally
sensitive natural resource management. Our certification standards,
guidelines and criteria are available to environmentally concerned
consumers. Any potential customers are invited to visit our harvesting
sites for a guided tour anytime.
A purchase
of a DRAFTWOOD Log Home will include artwork that will show the methods
of harvesting. It will also include a third party "community certification"
of the source of the logs and a chain of custody of the logs once
they reach the processing facilities. Once the customer has made the
decision to go "green" by choosing DRAFTWOOD
we will connect them to the appropriate folks at Turman Log Homes
for design and details for your home. We thank you for sharing this
information with any potential customers.
http://healingharvestforestfoundation.org
http://www.turmanloghomes.com/
