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You can get a good choice of firewood in Granada - here are the facts
We used to have our firewood delivered but sometimes found it difficult to be available when the delivery arrived. And then some of the pieces we received weren't always a convenient size or shape for our two wood burning stoves.

And so when we want more firewood (or, in Spanish - leña - pronounced len-ya) I simply put the back seats of the car down, lay out a sheet of plastic and then go off to the woodyard to get my own firewood from Granada.

We use the Leñas Huétor Vega Woodyard in Granada. It is about 20 minutes from Los Limoneros.

plenty of firewood from granada to choose from Granada woodyard weighbridge
One of the places where we get our firewood from Granada

Our Easy To Use Woodyard

The woodyard is easy to use, it's open 7 days a week and doesn't even close during siesta time.

When I get there I just drive onto the weighbridge.

- Maria makes a note of the weight of the car and then waves me on and I drive over to the appropriate wood pile.

- There is holm oak, almond and olive wood to choose from.

- I load up my car and then drive back onto the weighbridge.

- Maria's scales compute the weight of wood and multiplies it by the price per kilo and then

- I pay.
It's as easy as falling off some Granada firewood.

Maria where I get my firewood Granada Fernando and Francisco
The photos show Maria, on the left, looking quite at home in her weighbridge office, and although she consented to having her photograph taken, she doesn't seem very keen on the camera.
The other photo shows Fernando and his father-in-law Francisco (Paco). They were collecting firewood from Granada when I last went to the wood yard.



The types of available wood are

  • Olive wood (olivo). This is the cheapest firewood to buy. Olive wood gives out a good heat but burns fairly quickly. Some of the olive wood is root wood and soil can be attached to it which can block the fire grate.

  • Almond wood (almendro). This is the middle of the range wood. Almond burns more slowly than olive but doesn't give the same heat as holm oak.

  • Holm oak (encina). The most expensive wood is holm oak. It burns steadily and gives out a good heat.
Most of the wood sold for burning is from off-cuts from tree pruning.

We have recently started using holm oak for our fires as it burns steadily and gives off a good heat.


Side Note We have two wood burning stoves. One is an enclosed cast iron stove which gives out a long slow heat. Our other fire is a self standing chapa (sheet metal) stove which gives out a lot of heat very quickly, but also burns the wood very quickly. Find out more from this excellent Woodburning Stoves Handbook or this new Heating with Wood DVD Set.

Wood for sale sign
There are firewood sales outlets dotted all around the area, but we have yet to find one that offers Granada firewood at the price and the ease of use as Leñas Huétor Vega, the woodyard on the Cájar to Monachil road. If you know of any, please let us know.

Granted, buying firewood in Granada is a winter's occupation, for who would want to build a roaring fire in the heat of summer?

Next time I go to Huérto Vega for some firewood from Granada I will ask Maria what she does in the summer months.

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