It's a fair question to ask any firewood seller — and one a lot of them dodge. Here's a straight answer about where our Red Gum comes from, and how you can check that what you're buying is the real thing.
Our Red Gum is sustainably sourced from local Victorian farmers. It comes off farmland here in Victoria, not from native forests — and we think that matters. As Victoria moves away from native-forest timber, responsibly sourced firewood from farmland is the sensible choice: it doesn't come at the cost of native forest, and it keeps the supply chain local and accountable.
Because we buy from Victorian farmers, we can tell you where each load originates — and we're happy to. That's the simplest test of an honest firewood seller: if they can't or won't tell you where the wood is from, it's worth asking why.
Firewood is an easy purchase to get short-changed on. Before you buy from anyone — us included — these three questions sort the genuine sellers from the rest.
Ours is farm-sourced Red Gum from Victoria — not native forest. A seller who can name their source has nothing to hide; a vague answer usually means the wood is bought in from wherever is cheapest that week.
We're a GST-registered business — ABN 89 902 804 079 — so you can get a proper tax invoice for your order, not a cash-in-hand mystery with no comeback if the load is short. Ask any seller for one; a legitimate business provides it without hesitation.
Under Australian measurement law a cubic metre of firewood is measured neatly stacked, not tipped in a loose heap. We stack yours on delivery, so you can see and measure exactly what arrived.
Red Firewood trades under ABN 89 902 804 079 and is GST-registered, so you can get a proper tax invoice showing exactly what you paid for. It sounds basic, but a surprising amount of firewood changes hands with no receipt and no accountability — so if the wood turns up short, wet or green, there's nothing to point back to. We'd rather do it properly.
A fair worry is that cheaper firewood must be dodgy firewood. Our $499 per cubic metre includes delivery and on-site stacking, sold by the legally-measured stacked cubic metre. It isn't a discount that hides a short or unseasoned load — it's a fair price for premium seasoned Red Gum, delivered and put away properly. If you want the full detail on how firewood should be measured and why a stacked metre beats a "loose" one, we explain it in the cubic metre guide, and there's more on the wood itself in our Red Gum firewood guide.
The short version: farm-sourced Victorian Red Gum, from a registered business, sold by the stacked cubic metre, delivered and stacked. If you'd like to know more about where a particular load came from, just ask when you order.
Farm-sourced, seasoned, delivered and stacked — $499 per cubic metre across inner Melbourne.