We offer a range of willows to suit all uses and interests. Here’s a handy guide to the differences between them: Productive biomass willow varieties grown as Short Rotation Coppice…
The who, what, when, and how of harvesting. Of course, there is a theoretical optimum time to harvest your crop, but our maritime climate often puts a spanner in the…
When you are managing a perennial biomass crop with a 20 year+ lifetime, it is unlikely that it will all be plain sailing. There’s a lot that can go wrong:…
Farmland bird populations have been declining for decades as a result of farming practices (large monocultures of food crops, use of insecticides and herbicides) and more recently climate change. Perennial…
Below are some resources for policy makers. The papers and reports presented are by no means an exhaustive literature review but provide a suitable gateway of information in order for…
There are hardly any places where you can see different biomass crops growing next to eachother. This is one of the reasons why the Biomass Connect hub sites at 8…
As part of the Envirocrops project, C4E and our partners (Calvium, AFBI and NFU Energy) have devised a Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) game called Cropper. This is aimed…
Thanks for purchasing willow and poplar cuttings, setts and rods from us. We want your planting material to have the best opportunities to grow so here are some instructions on…
Under the non-domestic Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) around 19,000 biomass boilers have been installed in Great Britain. Any Government scheme giving grants or rebates has a requirement for compliance and…
It’s possible to plant Eucalyptus all over the British Isles but you need to make the right choice of species and plant according to best silvicultural practice. Many early trials…
There are countless permutations for spacing different energy crops in order to get the best results. The distances between plants and the stocking density choosen depends on a number of…
Since I wrote the SRC variety guide back in 2012 some new information has come to light. I always hoped that I would be commissioned to do a follow up…
