<div id="LayerE10" style="visibility: visible; overflow: visible; z-index:0; left:0px; top:0px; position:absolute; "><div align="justify"> <table style="border-collapse: collapse;" width="600" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="8" bordercolor="#000000" border="0"><tbody><tr><td width="50%" valign="top"> <div><span class="Green_Head">The Estate Today</span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"> </span></div> <div> <div align="justify"><span class="Black_Text">Today Callendar Estate extends to approximately 6,300 acres with the main part of the Estate lying on the south side of Falkirk with other areas around Denny, Larbert, Laurieston and Whitecross.</span><br /> <span class="Black_Text"></span><br /> <span class="Black_Text"> The majority of our agricultural land is let out to working farming businesses and provides the basis of production, and in many cases the home for 20 farming families. Our tenant farmers are responsible for the day to day management of their land and for deciding what crops to grow and animals to rear. </span><br /> <span class="Black_Text"> </span><br /> <span class="Black_Text"> Across the Estate production ranges from cereal crops such as wheat and barley to potatoes, oil seed rape, beef, lamb and milk.</span><br /> <span class="Black_Text"></span><br /> <span class="Black_Text"> Over the years the Estate has invested in our let farms through the provision of modern farm buildings and the upgrading of properties to ensure that as far as possible our farms are equipped for the needs of modern farming methods. We continue to invest in our farms where there is a sound business case. </span><br /> <span class="Black_Text"></span><br /> <span class="Black_Text"> Whilst food production will always be an important output from our farms there is an increasing expectation that farms should diversify from food production and into other types of business, particularly leisure and tourism.</span><br /> <span class="Black_Text"></span><br /> <span class="Black_Text"></span><span class="Black_Text"></span><span class="Black_Text"> The Estate is happy to encourage our tenant farmers to explore new business opportunities and will work with them where appropriate to diversify and strengthen their business and ensure a long term future. In particular we are keen to encourage leisure or tourism based enterprises that make use of the extensive network of paths and tracks that the Estate has developed over the years. </span><br /> <span class="Black_Text"> </span><br /> <span class="Black_Text"> The woodlands on the Estate extend to approximately 1,500 acres. Traditionally the Estate reserved the best land for agricultural use and planted the poorer land with trees to provide timber for the Estate’s need for fencing materials and timber for the maintenance and repair of our buildings. In more recent times our woodland management has attempted to encompass our wider objectives which attempts to balance the need for timber production with nature conservation and the provision of public access.</span><br /> <span class="Black_Text"> </span><br /> <span class="Black_Text"> As a result the large blocks of Sitka Spruce are being felled on a planned basis to be replaced with a more varied woodland structure which still includes some commercial conifer but also extensive areas of native broadleaves and open space. </span><br /> <span class="Black_Text"></span><br /> <span class="Black_Text"> In 2006/07 we were fortunate in securing funding through the Forestry Commission and Forward Scotland which has enabled us to accelerate this process, particularly on our four woodlands closest to local communities, at Chacefield Wood in Denny, Tamfourhill Wood, Kilbean Wood in Falkirk and Pirleyhill Wood in Sheildhill. </span><br /> <span class="Black_Text"></span><br /> <span class="Black_Text"> With a growing public awareness of the need to reduce our carbon emissions the Estate has recently set up a new Woodfuel Enterprise which will convert low grade timber into wood chip which will provide a sustainable, low carbon fuel for heat production. </span><br /> <span class="Black_Text"></span><br /> <span class="Black_Text"> Through this enterprise we aim to supply up to 2000 tonnes of wood chip every year which has the potential to heat 200 homes or 4 schools or 2 hospitals.</span><span class="Black_Text"></span></div><span class="Black_Text"></span></div></td><td width="50%" valign="top"> <div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div><img width="300" height="165" src="/EZ/ce/ce/imagelibrary/urban-path.jpg" alt="" title="" /><br /> <br /> </div> <div><img width="301" height="165" src="/EZ/ce/ce/imagelibrary/glenrig-farm-02_300.jpg" alt="" title="" /><br /> <br /> </div> <div><img width="301" height="165" src="/EZ/ce/ce/imagelibrary/easter-strip-link_300.jpg" alt="" title="" /><br /> <br /> </div> <div><img width="301" height="165" src="/EZ/ce/ce/imagelibrary/easter-strip-path_02a_300.jpg" alt="" title="" /><br /> <br /> </div> <div><img width="301" height="165" src="/EZ/ce/ce/imagelibrary/woodland_300.jpg" alt="" title="" /><br /> <br /> </div> <div><img width="301" height="165" src="/EZ/ce/ce/imagelibrary/mixed-planting_300.jpg" alt="" title="" /><br /> <br /> </div> <div><img width="301" height="166" src="/EZ/ce/ce/imagelibrary/biomass-fuel-300.jpg" alt="" title="" /><br /> <br /> <img style="margin: 0px;" width="300" height="165" src="/EZ/ce/ce/imagelibrary/biomass-fuel-chips.jpg" alt="Biomass Fuel wood chip" title="Biomass Fuel wood chip" /></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <span class="Green_Text_Small">F</span><span class="Green_Text_Small">arming, woodland management and woodfuel production at Callendar Estate Falkirk Scotland</span></div></div>
BeSpoke Graded Cycle Route through the Callendar Estate
Glenrig Farm
Heizohak 14 800 chipping timber from Callendar Estate for biomass fuel
Lionthorn residents meet the landlowner, 2000
Rebellion Paintball Get Underway
Heizohak 14 800 blowing chipped wood fuel into the storage depot
Easter Strip path after surfacing
Easter Strip path before surfacing
Rebellion Paintballer in Loanfoot Wood
Timber storage area and wood fuel depot near Craigieburn Farm
Rebellion Paintballers in Loanfoot Wood
Bird Box at Kilbean
Craigieburn Farm
Local children get involved in path building in 2006
Lionthorn Woods Map
Lionthorn path before improvement
Lionthorn path after improvement
Lionthorn Woodland path for all users
Fox Covert old track
Fox Covert new path
Falkirk Wheel Access for All Map - 02
Path through Standalane Strip
Estate Boundary Map
Not all hard work – the community gets together at Lionthorn.
Falkirk Wheel Access for All Map - 01
School children from St Joseph`s Primary School, Drum Wood, 2006
Film Focus working on a film project at the Helix in Falkirk
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Recreation
Farms and Farming
Sustainable Wood Fuel Enterprise
People
Sustainable Wood Fuel Enterprise
Accessibilty
Conservation
Maps
Education
Callendar Estate Long Term Forest Plan
Rebellion Paintball
Hospital Heating Contract
Mavisbank Strip Spring Clean 2009
Path Link to Laughing Greeting Bridge
Mountain Bike Centre for Falkirk
Photographic Competition
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