Greetings from Missouri

Greetings from the ice covered state of Missouri. My name is Tom and I am one of three partners that are involved in building a restorative forestry — custom woods business in Ray County. We are about eighteen months and three quarters of the way into the startup and have made great progress. Our long term vision is centered on building local community that is both productive and generationally oriented in learning to rightly steward the land in a sustainable manner. In conjunction with this vision we also are moving towards incorporating pasture farming into our business so that we can best utilize the land in producing all the feed needed for our draft mules and animals, as well as producing for our families. We log with a pair of fine Belgian draft mules and operate a Cooks portable bandsaw and edger. We are now in the last startup leg of locating land for the business, where we can saw and dry lumber to sell and use to build with. Our worldview is biblically agrarian and quite proactive and hope filled. I am glad to be joining the group.

In His service and yours,

The Rural Missourian
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