Why you don't need to buy Fire Lighters

Birch and particularly Birch sap has a fascinating relationship with man.  Used for millennia variously as a tea and tonic, for wound dressing, for fixing flint arrow heads to hazel shafts for fire lighting and fire wood, for crossing water ways where a bridge cannot be built.  

Did you know that one of the ancient and still best ways of lighting a fire is to use the natural fire lighting properties of our dry Birch bark and hardwood kindling. 

With Birch bark you get a near instant flame from match or lighter and just a couple or three small strips will light your hardwood kindling in no time. 

Aside from feeling the link back to ancient times, the added benefit is the charming incense aroma created when burning a strip of Birch bark. 

Kindling from Wolford Wood is real kindling - no softwood inside. Our kindling is seasoned certified dry hardwood ash with some birch included for you to use as free fire lighters. 

We are currently offering free kindling with all log orders placed before the end of October 2026.

Hoping you found this interesting.