Local - Sustainable - No Added Chemicals
Our charcoal is made in an exeter retort, which makes it pure and smokeless. All of our timber is sustainably sourced in Norfolk and Cambridgeshire and the charcoal is made on the Norfolk Coastline. This business is an add-on to an existing firewood company https://anglianfirewood.weebly.com/.
90,000 tonnes of charcoal is imported into this country every year with a huge carbon footprint and swallowing thousands of hectares of woodland. All of our wood on the other hand, comes from sustainable forestry management practices, like thinning.
MORE ABOUT NORFOLK CHARCOAL
All of our charcoal is made out of locally sourced hardwood and produced in a retort kiln to produce pure, easy to light charcoal. It will be ready to use in 10 minutes and has a long burn time. Because no chemicals have been added, it won't produce any flames or smoke. We package the charcoal in biodegradable paper bags.
HOW OUR CHARCOAL IS MADE
The charcoal is made in an Exeter retort, which is the cleanest way of producing charcoal. The retort has two chambers. The wood is stacked into the inner chamber and is sealed. Then the outer chamber is closed and a fire is lit at the bottom, heating up the wood. Once the wood gets hot enough the gas is re-directed down to the bottom and is lit. The machine then needs no more wood to keep it hot and little interface, and keeps burning for 8-10 hours. The extreme heat extracts all harmful gases, leaving the charcoal 98% pure carbon. This method means that the charcoal doesn't leave a nasty taste on your food from chemicals and is completely smokeless.
WHAT WOODS ARE USED
We only use quality hardwood felled in Norfolk for our charcoal. None of the wood is imported. We only use hardwood so that the charcoal has a long burn time. On the bags, you will be able to see what species of wood it is and where it came from.
OUR STOCKISTS
We stock a large range of fantastic farm shops and butchers around Norfolk. Listed are the shops that we currently stock.
Algy’s Farm Shop
Archers Butchers
Arthur Howells Butchers Burnham Market
Arthur Howells Butchers Wells
Back to the Garden Farm Shop
Barkers Butchers
Beast to Block
Bowers Butchers
Brancaster Village Stores
Burnham Deepdale Stores
Coxfords Butchers
Church Farm Shop
Drove Farm Orchards
G.F. White
Groveland Farm Shop
Howards Butchers
Keeters Butchers
Les Ward Greengrocers
Ludham Butchers
Meadows Farm Shop
Norfolk Lavender
Norfolk Farm Shop & Deli
Priced Right Stores
Rising Lodge Farm Shop
Silver Service Filling Station
The Goat Shed
The Fish Shed
The Potting Shed Deli
Thornham Deli
Swanton Morley Stores
Walsingham Farm Shop
GET IN TOUCH
Dairy cottages, Barwick, Stanhoe, King's Lynn, PE31 8PZ
07831 623624