Native woods and trees offer a huge range of benefits to farmers, including shelter for crops and livestock and summer shade important for both animal welfare and
productivity. And now, with rising energy costs, more and more people are planning to plant wood for fuel. Home-grown firewood can be available within 10 to 15 years of planting, with annual sustainable supplies to heat the farmhouse thereafter. Managed harvesting of wood can also be compatible with truffle
cultivation.
Whatever your incentive for planting, you could soon be walking through your own flourishing young forest of oak, ash, and hazel. Grant-aid is available for
planting half an acre or more, making unused areas of land easy to turn into flourishing woodland that produces truffles, and at little cost to the
landowner.
For more information on the grants available for creating truffle plantations please contact Heather at shop@plantationsystems.com