[Sca-cooks] Re: Charcoal

[johnna holloway]

 Well, the article gives that website and Google
indexes that website and it's not there at the
moment. it's now an 404 error... sorry about that.

Johnna

johnna holloway wrote:
>
> The article that I made a reference to in
> Gardens Illustrated, February 2001 entitled
> "Burning Issue" describes the work of Chris
> Jefferson who is attempting to create an
> "English charcoal renaissance and change the
> face of the Cumbrian woodland at the same time."
> He is advocating a system whereby oak, ash, hazel or
> hornbeam are cut down to a stump and then coppiced
> to create seperate poles that can be harvested every
> seven years. The article notes that the Dutton Furnace
> burned the equivalent of 10 acres of woodland a week
> at its peak from 1650-1750. Using his modern steel kiln,
> Jefferson averages a sixth of a tonne of charcoal from
> one tonne of wood.
>
> There is a website given at www.englishcharcoal.co.uk
> that people may want to check out.
>
> Hope this provides more information.
>
> Johnna Holloway
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