We are a family business with a forestry background that focuses on quality, locally sourced products. We are a  very hands on company where being outdoors is a key component of our jobs and our lively hood.

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Our family has been in forestry for several generations. Barrett Enterprises was formed in
1973 when our father David Barrett thought it would be a good idea to incorporate a company where his children could learn about family business and at the same time provide opportunities for all our family members. With a focus on quality local products we started selling firewood, expanded into forest harvesting, then specialized in land clearing for power lines, housing lots, roads and subdivisions and added chipping to provide a more environmentally responsible solution for our land clearing clients. It had been common practice to pile up all of the brush and low grade material when clearing land and simply burn it to get rid of it. After researching alternatives, we purchased a European wood chipper and started chipping in 1986. This allowed us to turn the land clearing waste material into quality chips that displaced oil as fuel to heat local hospitals and greenhouses. While the right thing to do, markets for land clearing and for chip sales turned out to be extremely volatile and we would go from working flat out to supply our customers to having no chip sales for months. In 2006, to secure more stable work for ourselves and our employees we expanded the 8' firewood part of the business to include the sale and delivery of cut and split firewood. Over the next decade this grew to become a major part of our business. As the community grew around us we started retailing our firewood at our woodyard at 242 Beaver Bank Road to offer people the opportunity to pick up their firewood whether they wanted a bag, a trunk load or several cords. Over time we added mulches that were made by others out of our woodchips or firewood byproducts. At customer requests we added garden soil, then gravels and stone, with a focus on locally produced products. Each year we work on improvements based on our customers’ comments. While at times progress seems slow, when I look back at what we have achieved over the past decades I am amazed at how far we have come.