Welcome to the Creative Chestnut Company
The Creative Chestnut Company designs, makes and supplies bespoke items in Sweet Chestnut for both the garden and the home. Each piece is designed and made to order using traditional green woodworking skills and techniques, and is hand-crafted in cleft, durable English Sweet Chestnut.
Sustainable…
By purchasing a Sweet Chestnut product from The Creative Chestnut Company, you are helping to maintain the centuries old traditional woodland management system of coppicing. This eco-friendly, highly sustainable practice helps increase bio-diversity of flora and fauna, with huge benefits to wildlife.
Oh yes… The Romans
Well, where would we be if we hadn’t had the Roman Invasion all those millennia ago? The Sweet Chestnut tree, Castanea Sativa, was introduced to the British Isles by the Romans; as they were very partial to the nutty seed pods that the Sweet Chestnut produces. Apparently Roman soldiers were given chestnut porridge before going into battle!
Thanks guys, for introducing us to one of the most durable hardwoods that coppices so well and allows us to now work with this amazing timber!