Like clockwork, that’s the Festive Season upon us. Mike, Cara and all the staff here wish you a Happy Christmas and a Good New Year. We also wish to express a big thank you to all our loyal customers for making 2018 a good year for us. Hopefully everything is settling in well for you …

Just a note to keep you informed of the current firewood trade. The construction and commisioning of some very large woodchip powered power plants across the UK is causing significant ripples in the forestry chain. The demand from these plants is extremely high and is consuming huge quantities of our input material. They are consistently …

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  Firewood moisture content is such an important issue, I wanted to write this post exclusively to discuss and explain this important & topical issue. Trees obviously contain sap when they are growing, in fact when harvested in the summer they can contain up to 50% or half their weight in water. The water is …

The Hagland Chief arriving in Montrose with a load of high quality hardwood for firewood Norwegian Hardwood, Just wanted to blog on the current top seller in our firewood store. Every year, for the last few years, there is a timber boat heads over from Norway or Sweden to Montrose, just up the road from …

Harvesting Daffodil Bulbs In Bone Dry Soil Our summer break is behind us. How lucky have we all been with the weather. I hope you are enjoying your Summer. I spent some time in London and there wasn’t a green park anywhere! On the farm, our daffodil harvest is complete and we are onto the …

The sun is baking down here in Angus this week, we’ve gone from skiing to sunburn in such a short time. The farm finished up the Spring planting very well, after such a late start. Preparations are well on the way for the daffodil bulb harvest. The first bulbs harvested are destined for the USA …

  Some thoughts on the press interest last week, around the use of wood as a fuel in wood burners (known as biomass energy). This was only a small part of a broad set of proposals to generally reduce air pollution. It is fair to say that this is a problem as much for the …