Estate kindling
Hand-split, barn-dried kindling from our own woodland. Products appear here once the Kindling collection is set up in Shopify admin.
The woodshed
24 Month Aged Sussex Ash
Planted and nurtured in the South Downs National Park. Seasoned two full years in traditional barns — never kiln dried — for a cleaner, hotter, low-smoke burn. £16.99 a box, free UK delivery.
Woodland management you can burn
Most kindling in Britain is kiln-dried softwood — spruce and pine, rushed dry in a gas-fired kiln, bagged in plastic. Ours is the opposite in every particular. It's ash, the king of firewood: a dense hardwood that burns hotter and up to three times longer than softwood, so you use fewer sticks to get a fire away. It's air dried, never kiln dried — split by hand and stacked in our traditional Sussex barns for a full 24 months, until it's below 20% moisture the patient way, with no kiln energy spent. And it comes in a printed kraft box that's entirely plastic-free and good enough to give.
Working the woods — felling, thinning, replanting — is how we keep them healthy and full of life. The woodpeckers and marsh tits in our Woodpecker Hide are, in a very real sense, customers of the kindling business.
What we sell
One box, done properly: approx. 3kg of 24-month aged Sussex ash for £16.99, delivered free UK-wide — with twin and four-box bundles that save you money and spare the courier a journey. Everything is dried under cover to below 20% moisture and Ready to Burn certified [PLACEHOLDER: cert number]. Browse the shop — and if you're staying with us, you'll find a basket already waiting by the stove.
Two years in the barn. Never a day in a kiln. You can hear the difference when it snaps.
The shop
From the woodshed
The rest of the estate
Stay a while
Light the woodburner with kindling that grew a few hundred yards from your door.
See the stays →Meet the beneficiaries
The woodland birds your kindling money looks after — watchable from five hides.
See the hides →