A new co-operative marketing structure for selling small-scale landholders and farmers’ timber, which will maximise returns by entering into strategic alliances with furniture industry processors, while ensuring the consumer receives personalised service, quality assurance and a guarantee that the timber is sustainably sourced.

Good for the landholder, the community and the environment.

That’s smart thinking!

In central Victoria, farm foresters have combined to set up a co-operative SMARTimbers,which stands for Sustainably Managed Australian Regional Timbers. The co-operative will market small quantities of their unique eucalypts and wattles, casuarinas or cypress, for high quality furniture or appearance products.

The co-operative’s treegrower members love and care for their plantations and bush. To demonstrate that this is more than rhetoric, SMARTimbers’ members are signing on to comply with individually prepared Environmental Management Systems (EMS) for their farms. Independently audited, the EMS farm plans will guarantee that the growers have not only the will, but also the skills to manage their trees sustainably, as well as achieve a high quality product.