Our mission is to address human needs for forest products while creating a nurturing co-existence between the forest and human community. Healing Harvest Forest Foundation is a 501(c)3 organization established in 1999 to develop, implement and support community-based sustainable forestry initiatives, through the widespread use of animal-powered (horse, mule, oxen) extraction of logs and “worst first” single tree selection of individual trees in timber harvesting.

Ours is a “whole forest” eco-system management approach, toward the end of restorative forestry, community stability and achievement of our mission statement.

Our goals are to

1. Support practitioners of forest improvement, sustainable forestry with financial and technical assistance.

2. Provide educational services to generate public awareness of community/forest interdependence and develop mutually beneficial relationships between forests and people.

3. Perpetuate truly sustainable cultural traditions that produce social capital through development of livelihoods that reward ground-level forest stewardship skills, protection of the environment, and preservation of family integrity.

4. Explore methods and technology relating to low-impact harvesting of forest products.