FUEL TO BE PROUD OF.
What if fuelling your home could also support a valuable wildlife improvement project in your community?
With Nightingale Woodfuel it can…
Hi, I’m Steve,
My colleague and I have produced firewood from the same ancient woodland in Suffolk for over a decade.
What I can promise about our service is quality hardwood, felled and processed in accordance with a sustainable management plan and with a healthy, bio-diverse woodland at its core.
Thankyou for choosing Nightingale Woodfuel.
Each half-load contains approx. 300 logs!
Seasoned Firewood
A loose load of mixed hardwood* firewood, split and approximately 10-inch long.
£155 – half-load (1m³) loose, tipped
£300 – full-load (2m³) loose, tipped
Barrow and stacking service available @ £25 per 1m³
Free local delivery
*Typically ash, but may include other hardwoods
FAQ
ABOUT US
Ultimately, we’re just a couple of chaps spending our days in the woods…
But if there’s anything remarkable about us, it’s that we’re passionate about effective ancient woodland management; it’s benefit to bio-diversity, habitat creation and public health and the importance of looking to our local woodlands for more ethical fuel.
Whether it’s felling trees, moving timber, creating new coppice or mowing and raking rides, our primary aim is to continually improve our woodland for all it’s inhabitants, including the people who use and study it. Much of the woodland that we work was rescued by the current owner from the gloom of conifer plantation.
With the conifers removed and active management in place, the woodland is now a thriving success story of native trees and complex plant and animal life.
WHAT WE DO
Meadow Power…
Complete with the help of some weathered but trusty forestry machinery, we have created and maintain a network of many kilometres of ‘rides’ (grass tracks that link up the whole wood) We allow portions of these ‘rides’ to reach different degrees of growth to encourage as many differing habitats types as possible, including areas of tree saplings, bramble and wildflower meadow.
Tree Haircuts…
We’ve continued to turn more and more of the wood back over to a coppice structure, just as it would have been hundreds of years ago. Coppicing is a traditional woodland management technique. The stems of trees in a selected area are cut close to the ground with a chainsaw.
Over the ensuing years, new growth will sprout from the stump, grow until ready to harvest and be cut again, so the cycle goes on! Think of it like a much needed ‘spruce up’ at the barbers. (Ha!… Tree pun!)
With trees in their young, bushy form and sunlight now bathing the woodland floor, new ground flora will flourish. This sunny aspect and improved plant-life provides habitat to a much wider group of wildlife than overgrown woodland might offer. We then collect the logs using low ground-pressure machinery, only when the ground is suitably dry.
This sensitive approach to forestry means we can minimise our impact on tree roots and precious underground fungal connections.
WHY WE DO IT
“Woodmen traditionally make use of the self-renewing power of trees. Nearly all native species grow again either from the stump or the root system.”
– Oliver Rackham –
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Hadleigh Kersey Hintlesham Capel St Mary
East Bergholt Layham Copdock Bramford
07763622961
~All photographs were taken at our woodland site~
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