Category: What’s New at Hull Forest Products

  • Explore the Woods With Us This Fall

    As a valued member of our community, we’re giving you a heads up on our fall woods walks so you can mark your calendar now and save the dates for these free and educational tours: Town Forest Does the Public Good: Explore the recent forest management activities initiated by the Preston Redevelopment Agency and Hull…

  • New Woodland Management Video

    Interested in learning woodland management 101? Hull Forest Products offers free open-to-the-public woods walks and tours each year to explain the principles of forest management and show off our work. Can’t make it? Fret not, we have recorded the highlights of our latest woods tour in this 7-minute video:  

  • Hull Family Permanently Protects Over 700 Acres of Forestland in Granville, MA

    August, 2013, Granville, MA- Over 700 acres of productive forestland in Granville, Massachusetts have been permanently protected in a collaborative effort between the Hull family, the New England Forestry Foundation, the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EOEA), and the town of Granville, MA. The conserved forestland protects Valley Brook, which is Granville’s…

  • Forest to Floor: Sawmill Open House at Hull Forest Products

    The circular saw was invented in 1813 by a Shaker sister named Tabitha Babbitt (and we still use one today), but you may be surprised to see just how modern lumber manufacturing has become! Join us for our sawmill open house on October 12, 2013, and you’ll see firsthand how sustainably harvested local timber is…

  • A Treehouse Grows in the Yale-Myers Forest

    When Yale undergrad Griffin Collier approached Hull Forest Products about the possibility of donating lumber for the Yale Treehouse Project, we were excited to be able to help him reach his goal of building an arboreal retreat for recreation and wildlife viewing. The treehouse project was begun when Collier,  inspired by the feelings that treehouses…

  • Curly Birch Wide Plank Flooring

    Couldn’t resist showing you a sneak peek of this truly exceptional figured wide plank Birch floor we created for a client in California.  We loved it so much, we used curly Birch for the floor of our new office addition here at Hull Forest Products. We have many more photos of curly Birch floors in…

  • Join Us at the Shriner’s Auditorium Home Show Wilmington, MA Feb. 8-10 2013

    Attention Greater Boston residents! Don’t miss the opportunity to see our locally grown wood flooring in person at the Home Show at Shriner’s Auditorium in Wilmington, MA February 8-10, 2013.  Selected floors will be 10-30 percent off. This show is free and open to the public and ample parking is available.  Save yourself the drive…

  • Hull Wide Plank Flooring Appears in Old House Journal

    Interested in the history of wood flooring? Dan Cooper has written an informative article on the topic for Old House Journal, and OHJ editors selected this photo of our wide plank oak flooring (taken by Damianos Photography) to accompany the article.   Wide plank flooring is touted as a way to get a historic look or…

  • Hull Forest Products Recognized for Contribution to New England Agriculture

    Here at Hull Forest Products, we’re quite chipper about winning Farm Credit’s 2013 photo contest, which highlights regional agriculture. Farm Credit is the nation’s largest lender to cater exclusively to agricultural businesses and rural America. Not everyone realizes the contribution that forestry and forest products make to southern New England’s agricultural sector–more than $250 million…

  • Prefinished Wide Plank Wood Floors

    Looking for prefinished wide plank flooring?  Perhaps you don’t have the time or patience for a site-finished floor, but you want the durability and quality of a site-finished floor.  All of our wood floors are available either unfinished or  prefinished. We can accommodate wide board and long board orders and every floor is custom finished with…