The Greendale Group is working hard to become a more sustainable concern, minimising its impact on both the local community and the wider world. Sustainability-led initiatives range from using renewable energy to power businesses (via an AD plant and solar array) to trialling fishing methods designed to reduce emissions and lower fossil-fuel usage, as well as focusing on locally-sourced meat, fish and produce at Greendale Farm Shop. The Group is also part of farm land-management trials to help protect natural local habitats, and aims to reduce the carbon footprint of Greendale beef production to net-zero by 2027.
Situated at Greendale Business Park, Greendale Group’s own anaerobic digestion (AD) plant, Willowglen, generates clean, renewable energy to power Group businesses. The AD plant is ‘fed’ with an innovative input mix of organic materials collected from Greendale farmland (predominantly cattle dung) and rainwater harvested from farm buildings, to create biogas and, in turn, clean electricity. Everything electrical at Greendale runs on renewable energy from the AD plant or the solar array, including lights, refrigerators, ovens, delivery vans and even forklift trucks!
The Greendale Farming team is currently working to reduce its beef-production carbon footprint to net-zero by 2027. This includes trialling cattle feed made with by-products from the brewing and baking industries, and recording individual animal growth and harnessing lifetime data to optimise productivity. Greendale Farming is also participating in an environmental land-management trial with Clinton Devon Estates, and in addition – under the government’s Countryside Stewardship Scheme – is committed to conserving natural farmland habitats for birds and insects, including protecting flower-rich field margins and promoting low fertiliser-use zones
Greendale Farm Shop proudly sells meat from Greendale farmland and fish from Waterdance boats, alongside exceptional produce from West Country growers and makers. By championing local suppliers, Greendale offers customers great choice while supporting the local economy and reducing food miles — a commitment celebrated through its Love Local campaign and popular Exeter food festival.
Earlier this month, we invited tenants from Greendale Business Park to our first-ever ‘Insight Day’ to learn how their businesses are powered by renewable energy. Our anaerobic digestion (AD) plant…
Greendale hosts Renewable Energy ‘Insight Day’ with Business Park Tenants
Over the past year, Waterdance’s vessels, Monty of Ladram and Margaret of Ladram, have supported new studies and projects aiming to build a better understanding of the impact of fishing…
Yes, you read that right! At Greendale, we have our own anaerobic digestion (AD) plant, which generates clean, renewable energy for our businesses. The best bit? The AD plant runs…
Over the past couple of years we’ve substantially increased the number of roof- and ground-mounted solar PV panels at the business park, working with companies such as Olympus Energy to…
The Western Fish Producers’ Organisation is a cooperative that represents vessels across England including 16 vessels from the Waterdance fleet. One of the key aims of the WFPO is supporting…
Waterdance Work With The WFPO And Seafish On Low-Emission Gear Trial
We are pleased to announce that you can now get Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil, HVO (sometimes known as advanced biofuel or renewable diesel) at the Greendale Business Park fuel station. This…
Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO) Now Available At The Greendale Business Park Fuel Station
Over the last 15 years, the Carter family, which owns the Greendale Business Park, has planted over 23,000 trees on 21 hectares of land surrounding the business park. Today, many…
