Green: not just a slogan -

a way of life.

 

Stew·ard·ship (noun) - the conducting, supervising, or managing of something; especially: the careful and responsible management of something entrusted to one's care.

 

As part of a group of companies committed to natural resource stewardship, Barky Beaver can truly say: "We were green when being green wasn't cool."

 

With us, good stewardship of our natural resources, being "green," isn't just a slogan, it's a way of life.

 

Our parent company, Green Forest Wood Products, was started in 1970 by a second-generation farmer, whose father got into the sawmill business to supplement income from the family farm. That family-farming operation, and all the conservation measures associated with it, continues with another generation today, on several thousand acres in Tennessee and Kentucky.

 

Along the way, Barky Beaver founder Doug Smith decided if you're going to make your living in wood products, you must have practices in place to keep renewing those raw materials, and you need to use every part of a log you can. That's not just a good business practice, it's proper stewardship. We've continued those practices from the start, and we always will. We were green before it was fashionable.

 

That's just a part of Barky Beaver's commitment to stewardship and sustainability measures. We practice what we preach, and also preach what we practice. We not only do these things as a part of our everyday business, we encourage our sister companies and our suppliers to get involved, too.

 

We're directly or indirectly (through our sister companies) involved in almost every part of the logging and sawmill business.  When a log is brought into our sister sawmills, the bark is removed from it.  That's how Barky Beaver got started.  Since 1984, we've been taking this by-product of the sawmill operation and putting it to good use.  Our all-natural hardwood mulch is nothing but bark, processed in just the right way to ensure not only beauty, but weed control, insulation from temperature extremes, water retention and erosion control. You won't find any waste wood products in our mulch.

 

Wood chips are produced as a part of the sawmill process, too.  We buy wood chips from our sister sawmill and a couple dozen other sawmills and turn them into our popular Beaver Chips, used for playground and pathway surfacing (and some other applications).

 

We also use pine "fines" and bark in our soil conditioners and potting soils, too.  To further complete the "green" philosophy of our organization, the sawdust generated by our sawmills is sold to outside vendors or taken to a sister company as a fuel for their lumber and log-drying kilns.

 

We're proud of our "green" heritage. At Barky Beaver, it's just a way of life. 

 

To find our more, give us a call at (800) 737-3646.