Mission Statement

PRWMade is committed to creating unique sustainable wooden jewelry and home décor while limiting our carbon footprint. We believe in creating products that are not only beautiful and unique but also embody our commitment to eco-friendly practices and materials. We strive for excellence with every piece we create and have partnered with Greenspark and the EDEN Project to plant trees, remove plastic from our oceans, and reduce CO2 in our atmosphere.

We’re committed to choosing sustainable and eco-friendly practices in our craftsmanship. We promise to:

  • Choose to: use only material choices that will not include endangered or at-risk lumber and are sustainably forested;
  • Choose to: use ethically sourced precious metals such as recycled Sterling Silver when possible;
  • Choose to: use packaging that will use post-consumer recycled materials and earth-friendly seed papers;
  • Choose to: Use only finishes that are sustainable and do not have VOCs or other “forever chemicals”, such as Mineral Oil, Beeswax/carnauba wax, and Linseed Oil

About

Handcrafted Wooden Jewelry Made in Hamilton, Ohio

PRWMade is a one-person handcraft studio in Hamilton, Ohio, making small-batch wooden jewelry and home decor from sustainably sourced hardwoods. Every piece is laser-cut, hand-sanded, and oil-finished in-house. No factories, no outsourced manufacturing, no shortcuts on materials. This started as a personal project and grew into a full-time practice built around the idea that sustainable goods can be both beautiful and honest about where they came from.

I work with hardwoods including black walnut, maple, cherry, chakte kok, purpleheart, olivewood, and others, each chosen for grain character, durability, and responsible sourcing. Every order ships in plantable seed paper packaging that grows wildflowers when you put it in soil.

What PRWMade Stands For

  • Small-batch by design: Every piece is made in limited runs so quality never takes a back seat to volume
  • Sustainable materials: Responsibly sourced North American and exotic hardwoods, finished with food-safe oils and waxes
  • Environmental commitment: Every order plants trees through Eden Reforestation Projects and removes ocean plastic through Greenspark
  • Transparent process: What you see is what you get. Real wood, real hands, real workshop

If you want to know more about the specific woods I use, visit the Wood Guide. For care instructions, check the Jewelry Care Guide.

One Tree For Every Purchase

What?

The trees we plant support wild life diversity, improve coastlines, provide meaningful wages to indigenous populations, and grow Mangrove trees which are an incredible carbon sink.

For every purchase made with PRW, we donate a tree to be planted in the place of the wood we use.

Currently, we are partnered with thegoodapi and The Eden Reforestation Foundation to plant trees in Madagascar.

How can you guarantee that trees are being planted ?

Transparency is key.
Here are some links that show the impact PRW, Sprout and hundreds of other vendors have made together with our customers. ‍
1. Sprout's Eden account page that shows a summary of all the trees we have planted

2. Our tree planting ledger which keeps a running count of all trees that have been paid for and their corresponding certificates.

How can you ensure trees survive and don't die quickly after planting?

This is a fair concern and here is what we are doing to alleviate it:

Our partners work carefully with all levels of government to secure written agreements designating the restoration sites as protected in perpetuity. They hire people from local communities to plant trees.

In this way, we alleviate extreme poverty within the impacted community. Fair and consistent employment provides an economic incentive to ensure the well-being of the restoration project.

Additionally, those who plant the trees have a sense of “ownership” over the restored forests, so they protect them with great care. A percentage of the trees planted are agroforestry species (fruit, fodder species designed to provide food security and benefit legitimate human needs).

Over time these trees become a source of sustainable income. They do everything possible to supply the local communities with alternative fuel sources (e.g., fuel-efficient dry wood stoves and solar parabolic stoves), reducing and or eliminating the dependence on charcoal.

They hire forest guards as part of the labor force to protect the forests. Forest guards are part of the overall budget. Most significantly, we have seen the local communities fall in love with their forest. They benefit from the restored forest through an increase in fisheries, improved farming, cleaner water, and the formation of micro-enterprises.

As the employees work to restore their land, their lives are transformed as well.

Eden has also created a Forest Guard Endowment Fund, whereby one cent of the price of each tree is put into a fund for the long-term guarding and protection of our sites.

How much is donated by PRW to plant a tree?

For every tree planted through the GoodAPI integration, PRW is charged $.33.
The breakdown is: 
- $0.15 goes to Eden to plant the tree(s)
- $0.15 goes to the GoodAPI's operational costs
- $0.03 goes to the GoodAPI's credit card fees

How can you and The GoodAPI possibly plant for such a low price?

We work with Eden Reforestation to plant our mangrove species. Their cost per tree is inexpensive because most of the resources they need to plant a tree are either free or extremely affordable. ‍

A large majority of the trees we plant are mangrove species, and at 3-5 years of age, this species begins to produce and drop its own propagules, which can be used to give rise to a new tree. In the beginning, our partners collected resources from existing forests, and now they are producing an abundance of resources from their own forests.

When the need arises, they purchase seeds in bulk and at a low cost from local sources.

Many of the trees we plant are mangroves that only grow along coastlines creating "coastal forests," if you will. This provides the trees with an irrigation system that is largely self-sufficient and reduces the costs associated with irrigation.

All of Eden’s International Employees are paid fair wages that have been transformational for their quality of life. Because our projects are in developing nations, this cost, combined with the speed and efficiency of the planting processes, allows eden to plant a large volume of trees at a very low price.

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