Help us train artisans, build businesses and save forests
Empower artisans with accessible tools and skills
Connect quality products with high-value markets
Our mission
GreenWood is designing sustainable development for the real world. We work alongside the people who live in remote forest communities, helping them earn more by managing their forests and creating valuable wood products than they would otherwise derive from conventional slash-and-burn agriculture or illegal logging.
Our impact
GreenWood believes that one of the best ways to protect a forest is to enlist the participation and support of the men and women who live there—the people who stand to gain the most by its sustainable management or to lose the most by its destruction.
Artisan EcoTours
Our EcoTours offer the chance to experience inspirational woodworking in a unique tropical ecosystem. Participants come away with a better understanding of the fragile connections between our environment, our craft and our economy—and the role woodworkers can play in helping to preserve the forests on which we all depend. Join our next “Forests to Furniture” Artisan EcoTour in Puerto Rico: May 7–16, 2023!
Workshops
We’ve led training workshops in remote forest communities in Honduras since 1993, trained bowl carvers for five years in the Peruvian Amazon and have been assisting in hurricane recovery efforts, developing new programs and building greater resilience to climate change in Puerto Rico since 2018.
Artisan products
Discover the unique, handcrafted pieces created by GreenWood artisans around Latin America, from furniture and bowls to boats, turned carving mallets, and more.
“If there were a few more GreenWoods and MaderaVerdes, the world would be a much better place.”
Dale Bosworth, Chief, U.S. Forest Service, 2001-2007
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