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Created in 2003, Goods from the Woods® (GFTW) is a Minnesota-grown initiative that combines educational workshops, an 'Up North' specialty forest products marketplace and a community festival to celebrate northern forests and promote a vibrant forest-based economy. Goals of the initiative are to:

- Create an annual signature event of regional significance to attract visitors to the area;
- Improve the economic viability of nontraditional wood product businesses;
- Increase the utilization of our forest resources through improved harvest coordination;
- Promote sustainable harvesting practices.

GFTW creates and promotes unique opportunities to celebrate Minnesota's forests and forest culture through introduction to and interaction with native forest-related traditions and talents, and opportunities to learn about historic ties to forest-based life styles. GFTW also develops and cobrands workshops, conferences, public lectures, and other learning opportunities. See Partners.