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Timbertipi a natural choice to invest in glamping. ■ FSC Timbers ■ Solid wood flooring ■ Thermafleece insulation ■ Bronzed double glazing ■ Log burner ■ Lambeam construction ■ Free site survey Choose from 5.2 mtr up to 10mtr diameter Timbertipi with mezzanine floor from £8999 Your unique Eco Timbertipi will be hand built in the UK to the highest standards required to meet all BS standards and comes with a 20 year guarantee. The structure is built from laminated beams and can be finished in a verity of timbers to suit. Chose between cedar shingle roofing tiles or 100% recycled durable plastic slate guaranteed to last 50 years. TimberTipi l Unit 1 l Boundary Farm l East Cottingwith l York l YO42 4TA Email hello@timbertipi.com l Contact 07918 654609
GLAMPSITES PRODUCT IN FOCUS Achieving Sustainability With glamping attracting an ever more conscientious crowd, sustainability is an important requirement for providers Wagtail Farm Description: Smallholding supplying salad and meat products to local markets Product: Seasonal worker accommodation Company: Wild Hart (formally Classic Pod Company) Telephone: 07971 869058 Website: www.wild-hart.co.uk Details: Wild Hart created a small, well insulated cabin manufactured with timber from a local sawmill for the owners of Wagtail Farm. It is used as accommodation for seasonal workers sourced through WWOOF, a worldwide movement linking volunteers with organic farmers and growers to promote cultural and educational experiences based on trust and non-monetary exchange (www.wwoof.org.uk). This allowed the smallholding to accept workers, in particular family groups, for several months of the year to help with farm duties. With beautiful features, waney edge cedar cladding and a tin roof to echo the rain, it has space for a double bed and single bunk, a seating area around a small stove, and a covered veranda with bespoke sink. The timbers used are naturally durable and sustainably sourced, and don’t require any treatment. This was important for a smallholding with an organic stance. The Classic Pod Company has rebranded and become Wild Hart. Set up in 2016 by designer/maker Nick Sneller, the company was originally formed to design and manufacture cabins and pods but has since incorporated other products. Wild Hart Cabins, Playscapes, Gardens and Home Furniture. “Children thrive in the natural world”, we all do; that’s why Wild Hart is all about nature, escaping to a country cabin, exploring wild places, learning through natural play, or having beautiful wooden furniture at home. Feedback: The clients were able to work alongside Wild Hart to design and develop the cabin to their vision. It was built as a project with WWOOF volunteers as a learning opportunity, and many tasks were experienced by a number of workers staying at the farm over three months. Their interaction and enthusiasm enabled them to learn new skills, each worker also added their own creativity to the project by making decorative mushrooms from timber off-cuts. The clients were hugely satisfied and have referred Wild Hart to other customers. GETTY IMAGES Somerset Glampsite Description: Luxury off-grid glamping in a variety of structures in the south west of England Product: EasyGrid 3000 Company: Energy Solutions Telephone: 01634 290772 Website: www.energy-solutions.co.uk Details: A strong theme from last year’s Glamping Show was the desire of rural glamping sites to deliver enhanced amenities to their guests, ensuring visitors' stays are unique and comfortable. But how to get power to those remote facilities? Well, you need a power system that delivers on many levels including lower carbon emissions, quiet running, cost efficiency and durability. A glampsite in Somerset ticked all those boxes with their purchase of an EasyGrid 3000 at the show in 2016. The EasyGrid unit connects to solar arrays but also has a connection for a generator. It utilises energy from the sun to charge a battery where energy is stored until needed. The array then tops up the battery as the power is used. Each accommodation has its own solar power source providing plenty of light inside as well as a means of charging phones if required, although guests are encouraged to undergo a digital detox during their stay! Feedback: The owner said: "It was clear our guests wanted a more rural experience and EasyGrid was the perfect solution for providing power for our environmentally friendly site in rural Somerset. EasyGrid allows us to provide accommodation deep in the heart of our wood where the mains can't reach but without the downside of solar power alone." WWW.OPENAIRBUSINESS.COM 57
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