Farmers find out how woodlands can be turned into businesses
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(Originally published in the Midweek Herald, 2nd January 2008)

Park Farm, the headquarters of River Cottage, has hosted a successful,
one day event on the topic of managing farm woodlands for wood fuel.

More than 35 woodland owners and managers from the Devon, Dorset and
Somerset border area attended the event, organised by The Silvanus
Trust, Working the Woods and Forest Fuels Limited. Funding was
provided by Natural England and the Forestry Commission under the Farm
Demonstration Programme for the South West.

"Many farmers and landowners don't manage their woodlands, because
they think there is no money to be made in them," said Will Frost, of
The Silvanus Trust.

"This event gave farmers a better idea of what woodlands can produce
and where new markets for the wood are coming from."

Richard Down, farm manager at Park Farm, warmed up proceedings with
the demonstration of a recently installed 50kw log fuel system,
part-funded by the East Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
Sustainable Development Fund.

Local machinery supplier Halse of Honiton gave people the opportunity
to see new firewood processing equipment up close.

Woodlands are seen as among the most neglected parts of farms and,
other than supply the farmer with the odd log for the farmhouse, have
remained largely untouched.

But small farm woodlands can play an increasingly important economic
role on the farm in the form of wood fuel, coupled with environmental
benefit - if undertaken in the right way.

Speaker Dave Rickwood, of Forest Fuels, said: "Many farm woodlands can
produce significant volumes of wood fuel. The log market is probably
the most cost-effective for small, mainly broadleaf woodlands, whereas
the timber potential of many under-managed blocks of conifer may be
unlocked by the emerging wood fuel market." 










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