Woodchips

It is based in the Devol Industrial Estate, with organisers currently asking for help to move compost, woodchips and timber to get ready for the growing season.

Southern Cross University finding bioreactors filled with woodchips are successfully preventing some pesticides from leeching into the environment.

That our magnificent old-growth trees are felled to overwhelmingly make woodchips and produce pulp to make paper and box liners, makes absolutely no economic, ecological or environmental sense.

If you do plant them, make sure the soil is amended with a good-quality compost at planting and surround them with 4 inches of woodchips on the soil surface rather than rock.

Not one to do things by halves, Holder’s installation of solar panels, extreme insulation and a biomass boiler fired by locally-sourced woodchips has made the site not merely carbon neutral but carbon positive.

And while none of that will be exported from Portland, GrainCorp said grain played second fiddle to woodchips at the local operation.