A timber supply Australia grows on its own farms, and can name to the tree.
The wood in a floor or a wall should carry its history: the farm it grew on, the year it was planted, the mill that cut it. Stand is building that supply and putting the record in plain view, so buying Australian farm-grown timber becomes an ordinary choice rather than a hard one to source.
Why now
The country's timber sums no longer add up. Native harvesting closed in Victoria and Western Australia in 2024. Softwood plantations have barely grown in thirty years, and housing demand is tracking toward 259,000 new dwellings a year by 2050, which lifts the call for construction timber by about half again. Roughly a fifth of the timber in Australian homes already arrives by ship, and that share is set to double if nothing changes. Someone grows the difference, or we keep importing it.
What the trees pay back
For farmers
Tree belts earn their keep before a log is ever cut. Australian trials put well-placed shelter at close to a tenth more pasture, fewer lambs lost in a cold snap, and stock that gains weight faster. The timber grows on top of all that. One paddock does two jobs.
For the land
Roots hold a creek bank and a hillside together. Canopy brings birds and cover back to country that was cleared. A growing tree also banks close to a tonne of carbon dioxide per cubic metre of wood, and keeps it there.
For builders and makers
Australian species with character, cut and dried to spec, and a provenance record that goes back to the individual tree. No importer can hand a client that.
Thirty years in the ground
This did not start with us. Farmers set up the Otway Agroforestry Network in 1993, and it now runs to more than 200 member families. The Master TreeGrower program has taught landholders since 1996. Across those decades people planted, pruned and measured, and worked out which species grow straight and pay in this country. Sawlogs are standing in paddocks today because of it, with more coming behind them.
The part nobody built is the run from standing tree to finished board. Felling, milling, drying, grading and selling all happen, when they happen, by handshake. A farm-grown furniture range showed the cost of that gap: it launched at Melbourne Design Week, buyers wanted it inside a week, and the orders could not be filled because no organised supply sat behind them. The demand was there. The chain was not.
What Stand does
Stand is the record and the marketplace for that chain. It follows every parcel through five stages, from standing tree to felled log to milling, drying, and stock that is ready to specify. A parcel gets checked on the farm, tagged, and kept traceable to the tree it came from. A specifier reserves real stock instead of taking a promise on faith. A grower watches the wood move and gets paid for it. Thirty years of plantings become supply that farmers, millers and investors can actually plan against.
The work stays where the trees are. Local growers and mills do the felling, milling and drying, and a larger mill takes the overflow when volume calls for it. The money stays in the district that grew the wood. One shared marketplace gives buyers the reach and certainty that no single farm could offer alone.
The pilot
The first pilot stays small on purpose. One mill line, a few committed farms, boards sold through to real buyers, and every number put on the table at the end. It has one job: to show a farmer that cutting the trees pays, and to give the next planter a reason to put more in the ground than the last one did.
Stand runs for a purpose beyond its own margin. We commit at least a tenth of profit to education and to community programs that get more trees planted and better managed. The point is more agroforestry in Australia. The platform is how we pay for it.
Supply pipeline
Each cubic metre here traces to a tagged parcel on a named farm. Standing volume counts committed growers only. The plantings are ready. This is the line that gets them to a buyer.
Action queue
Stock list
What exists, where it sits, and when it can reach a site. A specifier reserves from this list. Nobody quotes against a tree that is still standing.
| Tag | Farm | Origin | Species | Profile | Grade | MC | Vol | Stage | Ready |
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Tree map
Where a board comes from is a real place on a map. Every parcel points back to the stand it grew in, whatever stage it has reached since. Small dots are registered standing trees in farm-forestry districts around the country, set on farmland and away from parks and reserves. Large dots are parcels already moving through the chain. Tap any dot to see what sits behind it. These points are sample and district-level for now; a GPS fix on each stem is the next layer of the register.
Dots and details still work once tiles arrive.
Growers
Committed is different from interested, and the difference matters. A committed farm has signed a supply intent and named quantities against dates. An interested farm gets the film and a call when the pilot opens, and nothing is claimed on its behalf until it commits. The pilot exists to prove the case: wood delivered, numbers shown, and a plain reason for the next person to plant.
Register your trees
About ten minutes, and rough numbers are fine. This is how a farm gets onto the register, whether you are ready to commit or just want to stay in the loop. The stock and farm figures elsewhere on this page are samples. What you enter here is real.
Specifier enquiry
Put a project's need against stock that actually exists. When nothing fits, Stand shows the closest real match and a straight lead time rather than a promise it cannot keep.