The whole Heart Eco team in the yard, with loaded trucks behind

A double-storey timber rondavel in the Shongweni valley, the mountain and the river behind

Save your cash

Reclaimed material costs a fraction of new.

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Save our planet

Nothing here goes to landfill. Trees stay standing.

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Discover abundance

The range, not the quantity. You will find things you were not looking for.

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Have fun

If we are not having fun, we are missing the point.

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A better way

What if I could find a place…

where money is one way to transact, and not the only way?

Here, Every One is Included. Every Thing is Valued.

Heart Eco · Zig Zag, B10A Kassier Road Extension, Ntshongweni · and Lot 15 Motala Road, Westmead

Find your way to deal with us Come and play at Shongweni Join the family. It is free.

at least 82,500 trees South African pine trees left standing in 25 years, because our customers chose reclaimed timber. How we count

Eight ways to transact.
Buying is only the first.

The world has lost itself in believing that money is the vital ingredient to transacting, in giving and receiving. So we are offering a fresh look at it. Buy from us in the ordinary way, by all means — and then look at the other seven.

Buy

I see value, and I have money to spend.

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Bargain

The price is too high, so I would like to make an offer.

Bid

I would like to make a bid on something special.

Barter

I have something you might want, and I would like to swap it for something of yours.

Benefit

I have no money to offer, but you have something that would help me.

Borrow

I need something for a short time, and have no use for it after that.

Brainstorm

I can offer my ideas, skills and energy in exchange for something I need.

Bequeath

I have a useful thing I no longer need, and I would like you to have it.

“Talk to us and help us navigate the way forward on new and exciting ways to give and receive.”

It was never only reclaimed timber

Reclaimed timber is what pays the bills. It is not the whole story. Everything below already exists here, waiting to be discovered.

Reclaimed timber Machined wood Wood machining services Wood laminating services Custom pallets, boxes and crates Custom picture framing Picture frame mouldings Ready-made picture frames Art prints and posters Framed originals and art prints The Craft Bouquet and DIY workshops Business start-up Riverside Rendezvous

Come and make something

Picture framing is open again at Shongweni, with arts and crafts beside it. Bring your picture and our team will frame it for you, or pull up a chair at the Craft Bouquet, our free play tables, anytime during business hours.

See what is on the tables

Join the family. It is free.

Family members hear first: when the workshops run, what has just come in, and what we are giving away. It is how most of our people found us in the first place — someone told them.

Join the Heart Eco family

One sign-up at the counter, or on this page. We will never pass your details to anyone else.

Belong

I want to join a different way of living in the world.

Be

Be accepted for who I am.

💜

And then you belong

A World Without Waste is a World of Joy and Abundance. In this world, Every One is Included. Every Thing is Valued.