SoCo BioBiz Competition Award

We are honored to have been selected as one of the winners of the Sonoma County Biomass Business Competition in 2021 alongside Soil Carbon Management Company.

As a startup, the capital and technical services provided as part of the award have pushed up our go-to-market timeline substantially and we are grateful to the selection committee for choosing Forestree Collective.

The Sonoma County Biomass Business Competition was organized by the Northern Sonoma County Air Pollution Control District, CAL FIRE, Sonoma County Economic Development Board, Sonoma Clean Power, CLERE Inc., and the Napa-Sonoma Small Business Development Center.

From their website on why the award:

NoSoCoAir and a coalition of forest experts, business leaders, and public officials, recognize that forest restoration is necessary to reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfires and to maintain healthy forest ecosystems. A recurring barrier to forest restoration activity is the removal and utilization of excess biomass that creates excess fire fuels and alters native ecosystems. The goal of the Competition is to spur local small business innovation to create high-value wood products from the excess biomass to create complementary and ongoing partnerships that support forest restoration activities and help maintain healthy forest ecosystems.