About Us

Hi, we’re Celine & Rob, the founders of Mossy Acres.

After meeting while both studying Forestry in college, we started careers in the field and worked hard to become private forest landowners on a humble 5 acre homestead in Pennsylvania's Laurel Highlands. We love watching the forest change throughout the seasons and finding ways to utilize the many gifts nature provides from foraging wild foods to decorating our home with natural elements. We're excited to share our woods with you so that you can enjoy these same benefits no matter how far from Pennsylvania you are.

As foresters, we also realize the crucial role private forests play in conserving our native plants and wildlife. In Pennsylvania, about 70% of the forests are privately owned. Unfortunately, these forests are under constant pressure to be developed. What if it made the most sense, economically, to keep these forests as forests? We are striving to create a model that proves a wooded area can provide economic benefit while staying a forest.

As conservationists, we take great care to harvest products in a way that minimally impacts the ecosystem as a whole. One example of this is through only selling mixed species moss packages. This allows us to harvest in a way that evenly distributes harvest pressure across the moss species and avoids overharvesting of a single species.

Our mission is to sustainably harvest forest products to keep private woodlands wooded for generations to come. We hope you'll help us with it.