The rain has come just at the right time for anyone thinking about planting Miscanthus this spring. With record breaking temperatures in February and over Easter and wall to wall sunshine, farmland was starting to become worryingly dry. Farmers and gardeners across the UK were metaphorically doing rain dances and thankfully the weather has returned […]
Do you have a bit of land and a wood stove or log boiler? If so, you should consider planting some fast growing trees to produce ample quantities of fuel in no time. If you do a search online for the best trees for logs you’ll find the same list reproduced again and again. A […]
Do you want to plant Eucalyptus for biomass or timber production? Then look no further – our price list for plug plants is now online. We cater for all orders from just a few to tens of thousands. There are planty of species that can grow well whatever your soil or climate. For instance Eucalyptus […]
Do you want to hide something ugly? Do you want a shelter belt for your house to reduce wind chill? Do you need an effective windbreak for a horticulture crop? Do you want to reduce local noise and air pollution? You can do all this and more using fast growing shrubby trees like willows and […]
Once in a while a customer enquires whether they can use material that they have already planted to plant new areas. The answer is no. This is because that all biomass willow varieties that we sell are protected by Plant Breeders’ Rights (PBR). This means that you would need the agreement of the plant breeder […]
Back in 1974 music critic Jon Landau went to a concert and then wrote an influential article in which he claimed “I saw rock and roll’s future and its name is Bruce Springsteen”. Within a year Bruce Springsteen had released Born to Run and his face was on the cover of Time and Newsweek. The […]
BREXIT will have a massive impact on many industries in the UK and biomass heating is no exception. In this blog I gaze into the crystal ball and try and anticipate some of the outcomes of us formally leaving the EU next March. Obviously a lot of this is conjecture but I’ll be making some […]
Last year we reported on a Europe wide timber shortage and the reasons for this. This led to massive increases in the price of biomass fuels, particularly wood pellets. As a result of this we are already seeing signs that UK landowners are beginning to realise the benefits of planting more energy crops and woodland […]
It’s scorchio at the moment – has been for two weeks and looks like staying that way for another fortnight at least. Then there are the distractions of the World Cup , Wimbledon and the Tour de France. Chances are, the only boiler on your mind is the unrelenting sun and the only fuel you’ll […]
Around 95% of Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) biomass projects use woodfuels (as opposed to non-wood fuels). Of these, a large majority comprise wood chip, wood pellets and logs that are sourced from clean virgin timber from woodland management and timber processing activities. In these cases assembling the necessary sustainability evidence for accrediting fuel on the […]