In accordance with our ethics, we aim to use primarily treework arisings – our own, local contractors’ and Local Authorities’ – with commercially sourced softwood making up the difference between supply and demand (mainly for woodchip). Arisings can be of two sorts: urban treework or woodland management, where timber is felled for the primary purpose of habitat management. In either case, felled trees are either clear of legal protection (i.e. free from Tree Preservation Order) or work is approved under a Forestry Commission grant scheme.
Most of our products are air-dried, and we run a low impact, biomass-powered on-site kiln.