While we believe a lot of timber in the fencing & landscaping sector is British-grown, can we prove it? And would it give your business a market advantage if you could? Grown in Britain is the British-grown timber promotion campaign whose provenance assurance system is being used in marketing by some of the big players […]Read More

The Spring meeting of the Scottish Timber Trade Association (STTA) was held recently in Stirling. A very large number of Members, drawn from timber merchants, sawmillers, agents, hardwood, softwood, sheet materials and joinery specialists attended. STTA’s membership, which continues to increase, is estimated to account for at least 70% of the timber trade in Scotland. […]Read More

Humberstone Bank Farm in the Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty is being farmed sustainably to protect water quality, wildlife biodiversity, peat moorland and improve carbon storage. Jonathan Grayshon, the tenant farmer, and representatives from land owners Yorkshire Water chatted about their shared vision for this 900-hectare farm with Julian Smith MP last week. The […]Read More

It could well be the biggest and most ambitious projects ever undertaken by a fencing contractor! Leeds-based expat Kiwi Steve Ward of Silver Fern Fencing is involved in an innovative project to construct a massive time capsule ‘peace pyramid’. Steve explained: “The Earth Pyramid Project started 8 years ago when my daughter asked me ‘what […]Read More

Some fencing contractors will go to the ends of the earth to get the job done! Take Richard Foxley, a fencing contractor based at High Peak in Derbyshire who has just returned from a two month stint in Antartica working as a machine driver for the British Antartic Survey at the Halley VI Research Base […]Read More

H&H Land and Property have welcomed the announcement this week by Natural England that the Hedgerows & Boundaries Grant (HBG) is to be re-launched.  “Following a change in the eligibility rules, this now means that the grant will be available to more farmers than ever before,” explains David Morley, Head of Conservation and Environment at […]Read More

First came Brexit, and then Trump! Just when we all thought there were no more surprises, comes the news that the fencing industry’s two long-established trade associations are to merge. At an historic Extraordinary Meeting held last month, members of both the Fencing Contractor’s Association (FCA) and European Fencing Industry Association (EFIA) unanimously voted in […]Read More