“Steward Community Woodland was born five years ago, when a group of us looking to set up a sustainable living and working woodland project bought and moved into Steward Wood on the edge of Dartmoor in Devon.
With a need for electrical power but no thoughts of having a connection to the grid, we looked into renewable ways of producing this.
Using reclaimed parts from skips and recycling centres has meant that a lot of the systems we have used to produce power, especially in the early years, cost little or nothing to build.
It makes so much sense, both financially and in terms of our environment, to Reduce, Reuse, Repair and Recycle…”
