Sourcing
Timber & forest
Every splint starts as a Falkenmoor aspen. Here is where they grow and how the works pays for them.
The woodland
Aspen, and only aspen
Match splints want one thing: straight, pale, low-resin grain. Falkenmoor aspen gives it. The works buys standing timber from twelve small woodlots around the lake under a rolling twenty-year agreement signed by Mira in 1999, renewed by Reve in 2024.
The rule is simple: the works cuts only what the lot owner would cut anyway in their management plan, pays above the timber-market rate, and plants two aspens for every one felled, on the owner's land, at the works' cost.
Two for one
26,400 aspens planted since 1999. The ledger is public in the Striking Gallery and audited every March by the Falkenmoor Woodland Society.
Nothing leaves as waste
Offcuts heat the dry lofts. Sawdust goes to the town allotments as paths. Bark chippings line the museum's gravel yard.
The lake gives back
Process water is filtered through reed beds before it returns to the lake. The reed beds were Ansa Kole's idea and she checks them personally.