There's lots of fallen timber in our 4-acre forest, which got us thinking about uses for waste wood.  The 30 million tons of recoverable wood waste dumped in U.S. landfills every year (a fifth of all waste) has a $0/ton value in the landfill.  That value could be raised to over $15,000/ton if the wood is reused as mulch, construction material, home goods or furniture.

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Covering about 28% of our urban land area, nearly 250 Million trees live in Kansas City, and 0.37% of them are lost to various causes every year.  That implies that roughly 925,000 trees fall and need removing each year.  Cutting some of those tress into boards enables creation of unique furniture pieces after the wood is seasoned.  For more immediate creation, pallet wood, often acquirable at no cost, provides another creation option for home interiors.

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Thanks to a donation from a generous supporter in Summer 2018, we now have a complete wood shop.  We have identified a funding opportunity that could provide us with a sawmill suited to milling urban wood wrought with bullets and wires—unexpected factors that ruin larger blades.  With that $20,000 acquisition of suitable equipment, this business will be formidable.