Muddy Faces supports UK-grown wood

Muddy Faces UK-grown wood

A sustainable alternative to plastic play and learning resources.

🌱Forests for the future

Our UK-grown wood products are sourced from a sustainably-managed woodland, helping to maintain the balance between ecological, economic and sociocultural factors and supporting the viability of UK woodlands in the future. Buying UK wood also benefits local livelihoods, biodiversity and ecosystems, and provides recreational opportunities that improve health and wellbeing.

🪓Hand-harvesting

Our UK-grown wood products are hand-harvested. When trees are removed it allows light to penetrate to the woodland floor, enabling new growth and encouraging diversity in the woodland flora and fauna. Hand-harvesting by skilled craftspeople as part of a sustainable management plan allows wood to be extracted sympathetically with minimum disturbance to the natural environment.

🚚Carbon footprint

As our UK-grown wood grows it traps atmospheric carbon and produces oxygen; once cut it travels a relatively short distance to be processed in our workshop. In contrast, consider a plastic item travelling from far overseas, and the resources, including fossil fuels, that were used to make it.

🍄‍🟫Biodegradable

Natural untreated wood is fully biodegradable and, with a little help from some fungi, it will decompose, adding nutrients to the ground when it has reached the end of its useable life. Our UK-grown wood products are not treated with any chemicals and are safe to be left to degrade naturally at the end of their lifespan. How about making insect habitats from them?

🐌Nature connection

Connecting to nature from an early age helps instil a deep, sometimes intuitive, sense of our place within the natural world, that leads to a love and respect for our environment. To play and learn with wood is a full sensory experience. The unique character of each piece can be explored, with its bends, knots, flaky bark, different colours, textures and smells.

Our ethos of using & promoting UK-grown wood is so important to us that every year we dedicate a page in our catalogue to explaining why. Here's the same information as it appeared in our 2026 catalogue, and available as a download below.

See also

UK-grown wood products in the Muddy Faces shop

When you purchase any of our UK-grown wood products we'll pop this flyer in with your parcel.

Download a pdf of the tree trunk cross section image