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Welcome to the third edition of our Homewood bound blog series, where we’re discussing the insights raised in our report Homewood Bound: Challenges along the UK’s small-scale timber supply chain from forest to construction

Welcome back to our Homewood bound blog series, where we’re discussing the insights raised in our report Homewood Bound: Challenges along the UK’s small-scale timber supply chain from forest to construction

Welcome to our Homewood bound blog series, where we shed light on the intricate challenges faced by the small-scale timber supply chain, from forest to construction. These insights are taken from our report Homewood Bound: Challenges along the UK’s small-scale timber supply chain from forest to construction

CloudForest has embarked on an exciting project to build a digital supply network for timber.

Here’s our March newsletter, covering our new mapping feature and a blog about Simon’s experience buying local wood to build a shed.

Simon, our web developer, built a shed clad in UK grown larch. The experience helped him understand the opportunities for making it easier to buy and sell home grown wood.

Here’s our January newsletter, covering our vision for the timber supply chain and some surveys to fill out.

We look forward a few years, and sketch out our vision for a future (whale-friendly) timber supply chain.

Here’s our December newsletter, covering our trip to COP26 and our platform developments.

Hester popped down to the Construction Scotland Innovation Centre (CSIC) for Wood for Good’s COP26 conference. Here she saw some of the timber solutions that are transforming the construction industry.

Here’s our October newsletter, covering our trip to make Yakisugi at Abbey Timber and our platform developments.

We spent a day with Abbey Timber. They showed us the flue method for making Yakisugi, a beautiful, charred cladding.

Here’s our August newsletter, covering the Forth Vally Net Zero campaign, our platform developments and an introduction to our team.