Welcome to The Wood Project
We’ve been sourcing, salvaging, and supplying sustainable timber across Australia since 2016.
Why The Wood Project Exists
Forests are being depleted whilst suburban households, farmers, schools, councils and businesses are removing unwanted trees every day (remember trees do have a lifespan). Homeowners build on their land and developers are clearing blocks. But what happens to these trees? The hard truth is that most are treated as a burden and chipped away.
We wanted to make a difference so The Wood Project was born. Our purpose? To give trees that would normally be destined for woodchips, firewood or burn piles, a second life.
At The Wood Project, we are serious about what we do. We salvage, mill, and kiln-dry all our salvaged logs. None of our logs are sourced from forestry. Never have been and never will be.
We build custom furniture and most of our pieces come with a unique back story of the tree's history. These one-off pieces are designed to be cherished and admired for a lifetime. We recycle local cypress into pergola posts and post & rail fencing. If you are after some feature posts for your outdoor area, we mill them right here for you – custom sizes – no problems.
Shop online or visit our workshop to choose from one of the many beautiful, raw timber slabs waiting to be turned into a bespoke piece for your home, office, restaurant or store. You can buy live or straight edge slabs from us and work on them yourself, or we can create that custom piece for you.
If you have a tree or multiple trees that need to be removed, be sure to call us to discuss your options.
Meet Our Founders
“We love the shit out of wood, and see it as a valuable resource”
- Sarah and Nath Worth, The Wood Project Founders
Husband and wife duo, our founders Sarah and Nath started The Wood Project with a mission to make the most out of the valuable timber across the Mornington Peninsula region that was otherwise being chipped away to sawdust.
Sustainability was, and today still is the core purpose of this powerhouse pair.
Whilst working at their original full-time jobs, Sarah and Nath tell the story of how they left work to hold strategy days for their budding business idea. Holding weekly meetings in their lounge room and bribing the kids to ‘leave them to work’ was all worth it when in 2016 they quit their jobs and took the leap to officially start The Wood Project.
“We offered a service of taking logs to process into firewood, but we quickly saw this too was a waste of a beautiful resource as the log quality we were salvaging was too good to process into firewood" - Sarah
What started out as a sustainable firewood business soon grew into an all-inclusive sustainable solution for recycling timber and producing custom and unique furniture, fencing and timber slabs across Australia.
Today, Sarah and Nathan are still at the forefront of our day-to-day operations. The pair remain furiously passionate about our incredible timber, our customers, and creating opportunities to give a second-life to our local trees.
1947 Frankston - Flinders Road Hastings
0425 823 402
info@thewoodproject.com.au
Mon-Fri: 7:30am–3:30pm
1st Saturday of the month only: 8am–1:00pm
Sun: Closed