Check out this great story from the Asheville Citizen-Times. A couple in a small town in Western North Carolina is using tree bark and other waste wood to create shingles and high-end construction and home products.
All this wood would have been going to waste, at best turned into mulch at most sawmills. But the McCurrys have created a new market for area loggers, paying $1.75 per square foot for poplar bark.Highland Craftsmen’s trademark Bark House shingles can sheathe a house for at least 80 years — an environmentally friendly, energy-efficient product that can be certified back to the stump.“It’s all a sustainable harvest. We been doing it right since green was just a color,” said Marty McCurry.