To build a vibrant, inclusive community space that bridges the gap between exceptional local craftsmanship and everyday neighborhood life.
Through ethical sourcing, collaborative partnerships, and a dedicated youth mentorship program, we strive to empower local hospitality talent while feeding our community with sustainably grown, artisanal goods.
"To redefine the high-street café as a sustainable vehicle for local social change—proving that exceptional coffee and community development can thrive under one roof."
Full-scale mechanized clearfelling and selective thinning operations. Our outsourced crews deploy advanced harvesters and forwarders to optimize yield while strictly adhering to localized environmental forestry standards.
Heavy-duty off-road log transport solutions utilizing modern log-truck fleets. We manage complete timber haulage logistics networks from deep harvest zones to processing mills, ensuring consistent raw supply pipelines.
On-site or centralized industrial sawmilling, raw debarking, and custom dimension lumber preparation. We also handle scale outsourcing for bulk wood chips and alternative biofuel biomass product outputs.
Lumberjack is your dynamic neighborhood kitchen and specialized espresso bar. We focus on specialty coffee, multi-tiered artisan toasts, fresh salads, curated merchandise and sustainably sourced local food items.
Working closely with our signature roasting partners allows us to ensure a high quality of delivery and trace source elements all the way back to source farms. When shifting to seasonal lots or micro-lots, we bring you exciting nuances from global regions like Central America, East Africa and beyond.
Our daily kitchen setup serves freshly baked sourdough loaves, artisan pastries, sweet treats, and locally produced dairy items. We design everything around bringing a warm, welcoming, inclusive community hub experience to you.
Lumberjack opened its doors in January 2016 and since then has served the Camberwell community. From the start, our focus has been dedicated to offering solid employment for young adults where South East London areas experience high underemployment. Our cafe acts as a platform to mentor trainees into functional hospitality work.
Since the dynamic pivot of 2021, our team has grown alongside and continues to safely manage internal operations safely without compromising on execution, outstanding food quality, and a safe experience for customers.
Founder & Managing Director
Jakob Olsen founded White Bear Woodsmen Supplies and has since managed it for at least half a decade with a vision to combine his deep love for specialty coffee roasting with a sustainable business model that genuinely pours back into the South East London youth community.
Believing that neighborhood spaces have a responsibility to look out for their locals, he acts as a direct mentor for our youth development scheme, while keeping an eye on our local ethical supply pipelines.
Based in Scotland, Highland Logistics manages our deep-forest tactical forwarding and heavy haulage. They operate a specialized fleet of all-terrain log trucks capable of navigating the complex terrain of the UK's northern timberlands.
USA Network
Operating out of the Pacific Northwest, Cascade is our high-capacity processing hub for export-grade Douglas Fir and Western Red Cedar. They turn raw logs into custom-dimension industrial lumber.
Our primary land management and selective harvesting consultants in the Eastern US. Appalachian ensures all outsourced crews meet strict Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) carbon-offset and replanting quotas.
UK Network
Our premier domestic UK supply line partners for certified sustainable hardwood. They authorize and audit the raw English Oak and Beech extraction processes to guarantee full chain-of-custody tracking.
Managing the ecological loop of our American network, Great Lakes handles the clean outsourcing of all industrial timber byproducts. They convert sawmill wood waste, bark, and chips into high-grade commercial biofuels and wholesale biomass energy stock.
