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We advocate and consult on sustainable forestry approaches, and work with private landowners, communities, and government agencies to achieve responsible stewardship of our natural heritage. PineNut.com / Goods From The Woods Wild Crops Farm was founded by Penny Frazier in 1995. We work exclusively with wild harvested, special forest products from American Forests. Penny and her family are headquartered in Salem, Missouri on their wild crops farm, also working part of the year in Nevada and New Meixco with the American pine nuts species. Penny started working to demonstrate solutions to environmental problems resulting from poor use of natural resources in the early 1990s. She developed a number of social and environmental theories related to land use and human economic needs. This environmental philosophy is at the heart of her family business, Good From The Woods. She firmly believes that an abstract appreciation of eco-friendly approaches is not enough, there must be real success on the ground. So she set out in 1995 to demonstrate that by creating a demand for a wild product, we can create economic incentives for wilderness conservation. She is a tireless advocate of the forest species through demonstrating the economic value in native plant ecosystems. Her company engages in sustainable forest management, in gathering, processing, and distribution of non-timber forest products (especially wild growing nuts such as pine nuts), in growing nursery forest stock, and in related forestry consulting with its partners. Penny, her husband George Frazier, and friends and family work together with young people in their community as harversters, passing generational knowlege of the native plants on to young men and women who wish to harvest with them. George is technically the farm manager. He is a master distiller of Ozark native plants, including witch hazel, elder flower, plum flowers and other native florals. Additionally, George is geodesic dome designer, working in cold formed steel and other alternative ...