Inspirational ideas: French farmers establish local value chain with wood from hedgerows

This inspirational idea is also available in a Slovak version. Translation courtesy of the National Rural Network Slovakia. Read more EIP-AGRI inspirational ideas in Slovak on the NRN website. 

Barbecue season is approaching! And that is good news for the farmers of the ‘Association Bois Paysan’ in the French Cévennes region, who established a local collective that produces logs, woodchips and “barbecue wood” from old hedgerows on their farmlands.

The idea for the wood producing collective originated a few years ago when a number of farmers and breeders from the Cévennes attended an infoday on wood. They organised themselves into a group, to find outlets for wood that is harvested on their farmlands, and that traditionally does not have a quality that is rewarded on today’s wood market.

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Read the full article in the eighth edition of Agrinnovation magazine (page 22)

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