Welcome to Wight Heat briquettes
Wight Heat Briquettes are made from 100% clean wood waste, nothing added.
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About Wight Heat
Joanna Richards lives on the Isle of Wight with her husband and two daughters on a farm nestled under the Hoy Monument in the AONB in Chale. The farm, which has been in the family for four generations, was originally dairy and then beef before becoming arable, growing wheat.
Joanna grew up on the mainland but has lived in Africa and Asia working with rural people helping them to develop credit unions, grow trees and vegetables, and earn an income from art and crafts. She spent eight years in the game reserves as a wildlife ranger and working to prevent soil erosion through good land management.
Joanna’s husband Graham grew up on the farm and was apprenticed to a local timber firm where he learnt his much loved trade of joinery. After 20 years he started his own business on the farm which he still runs and is a major employer in the village.
Both Joanna and Graham are keen to live as sustainably as possible and are always looking to reduce wastage. It became clear that there was a way to turn waste wood into fuel for the local market. So Wight Heat was set up on the farm in January 2009 with the purchase of a briquetting machine.
But it doesn’t end there, Joanna now has clean wood waste coming in from a number of sources on the Island to be recycled. Suppliers are happy to know that the waste wood is no longer going into landfill - and subsequently emitting gases such as methane - but to a worthwhile use. Over the next few years Joanna hopes to find ways to maximise this local solution with more local products, helping the Island to reduce its carbon footprint, be more enterprising and meet its own fuel needs.
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