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Agri-forestry Companies in Brighton: 100+ Active Firms (2026)
Agri-forestry companies grow crops, manage woodland and provide land-management services across Brighton and its surrounding area.
Buying decisions usually sit with estate managers, landowners, local authority environment teams and contractors rather than centralised procurement functions. Work is practical and location-bound: maintenance agreements, planting or felling projects, rural-estate support, supply-chain crop work and countryside-management contracts. The better commercial fit tends to be owner-managed or small mid-market operators that can price seasonal labour, machinery use and compliance work into repeat relationships. Buyers are a mix of private landowners, public bodies, food-chain counterparties and environmental project sponsors, so evidence of permissions, insurance, plant-health handling and field capacity often matters as much as formal sales collateral.
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Brighton’s agri-forestry list contains 185 actively trading companies, a compact local cohort rather than a broad regional farming base. Reported employment totals 534 people, which points to a market dominated by owner-managed firms and small employers. The commercial pattern is therefore more local-service economy than industrial supply chain: woodland work, estate maintenance, crop-related activity and environmental contracting sit close to clients, sites and public bodies. Scale appears concentrated in a narrow tail, while newer firms add some churn around practical land-management services rather than changing the market’s basic shape.
Agriculture and forestry sit under a patchwork of environmental and land-management rules rather than a single licence regime. Defra is the central UK department for food, farming and rural affairs, with GOV.UK carrying official farm statistics and evidence packs. In England, the Forestry Commission regulates forestry, including tree-felling controls, forestry environmental-impact duties and plant-health rules. Farm and estate operations may also touch animal-health, plant-health, water, waste and habitat obligations, while support payments and agri-environment schemes influence project economics. For Brighton-area suppliers, compliance risk tends to be practical: permissions, records, site practice and subcontractor oversight need to keep pace with seasonal work.
Demand appears likely to remain tied to land-use pressure, woodland maintenance, nature-recovery work and the need for practical contractors who can operate across mixed rural and peri-urban sites. The Brighton cohort tends to look fragmented, with most operators competing on local access, field capacity and compliance competence rather than proprietary IP. Newer entrants face a slow route to scale because work is site-specific, seasonal and only partly asset-light; machinery, labour and permissions still constrain expansion. Consolidation looks more plausible around contractors with repeat landowner relationships than around venture-backed platforms, and turnover-ranked lists may remain sensitive to a small number of contracts.
185
Active firms
2026
2
Above £5M
reported revenue
41
Since 2022
incorporations
Key facts
About 1% of the trading cohort reports turnover above £5M (2 of 185 firms) — the rest sits below that revenue band.
22% of the cohort was incorporated since 2022 (41 firms), so a sizeable share is in its first few filing cycles.
GOV.UK’s 2024 farming evidence puts UK agriculture at 209,000 farm holdings using 17 million hectares, or 69% of UK land.
Defra leads UK food, farming and rural affairs policy, while the Forestry Commission is the Government regulator for forestry in England and enforces tree-felling controls under the Forestry Act 1967.
Forest Research reports UK woodland area of 3.28 million hectares at 31 March 2024.
Defra’s Agriculture in the United Kingdom 2024 summary reports Total Income from Farming of £7.7 billion, up £1.6 billion (+26%) from 2023.
The UK Producer Support Estimate was 14.6% of gross farm receipts in 2022-24, below the 30% measured in earlier periods.
Top Brighton agri-forestry companies
SUSSEX TIMBER COMPANY LIMITED
Trajectory
3y · 2023–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 3 filingsSupplies seasoned hardwood firewood logs, kindling and charcoal, and mills timber into beams, planks and cladding cut to order. Also provides tree surgery, felling, pruning, stump grinding, hedge…
Serves local households, gardeners and wood-burning stove users, plus tradespeople, builders, furniture makers, landscapers and small businesses needing timber, fencing materials, mulch, woodchip and…
Financial Health
HealthyHealthy · -5% CAGR over 2y
Location
OLUS ENVIRONMENTAL LIMITED
Trajectory
5y · 2021–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsRecycles green and wood waste into compost and landscaping materials. Supplies bulk and bagged topsoil, compost, mulch, bark, rootzone and turf, and sells firewood, logs and kindling. Provides waste…
Serves a mix of consumers, landscapers, gardeners, horticultural growers, landscape and civil works contractors, plus councils and waste industry customers, mainly around Sussex and Surrey.
Financial Health
WeakWeak · 2% CAGR over 4y
Location
Fountain Nursery Limited
Trajectory
5y · 2021–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsPropagates and supplies brassica vegetable seedlings and plant modules for commercial growers and farmers. Operates a horticultural nursery using glasshouse cultivation, seed sowing and propagation…
Serves commercial growers and farmers across the UK, particularly brassica and vegetable crop producers needing conventional or organic plant modules for large-scale horticultural production.
Financial Health
HealthyHealthy · Hiring · 25% CAGR over 4y
Location
ATHERALLS FARMS LIMITED
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5y · 2021–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsFinancial Health
WeakWeak · Hiring · 19% CAGR over 4y
Location
LANGLEY HORTICULTURE LIMITED
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5y · 2021–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsFinancial Health
HealthyHealthy · 0% CAGR over 4y
Location
Vert Wood Limited
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5y · 2020–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsFinancial Health
StableStable · Hiring · 11% CAGR over 4y
Location
Gardeners Retail Limited
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4y · 2023–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 4 filingsCommercial grower and wholesale supplier of vegetable, fruit and herb plug plants for garden centres and retail outlets. Produces a range of heritage and commercial varieties in pots or cells for…
Serves garden centres and retail outlets in the UK and Ireland that buy vegetable, herb and fruit plug plants for resale to consumers.
Financial Health
HealthyHealthy · Hiring · 44% CAGR over 3y
Location
Bennu Services Ltd
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5y · 2021–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsFinancial Health
StrongStrong · Growing · 0% CAGR over 4y
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Strutt Tree Care Limited
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5y · 2021–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsFinancial Health
DistressedDistressed · 0% CAGR over 4y
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Safe Tree Limited
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5y · 2021–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsFinancial Health
DistressedDistressed
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GREEN URBAN LONDON LTD
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4y · 2022–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 4 filingsFinancial Health
WeakWeak · Hiring · 26% CAGR over 3y
Location
Maplewood Tree Surgery Limited
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2y · 2024–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 2 filingsFinancial Health
HealthyHealthy · 0% CAGR over 1y
Location
HOLLINGS HOLDINGS LIMITED
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5y · 2021–NowFinancial Health
Insufficient historyInsufficient history
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DANWORTH FARM LIMITED
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5y · 2021–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsFinancial Health
HealthyHealthy
Location
Roots Upwards Limited
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5y · 2021–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsFinancial Health
StableStable
Location
NANCY BEE LTD
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4y · 2022–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 4 filingsFinancial Health
DistressedDistressed
Location
TEAS FOR BEES LTD
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3y · 2023–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 3 filingsFinancial Health
DistressedDistressed
Location
BEVERNBRIDGE FARM LIMITED
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5y · 2021–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsFinancial Health
WeakWeak
Location
T.W. SIBLEY (FARMS) LIMITED
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5y · 2020–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsFinancial Health
DistressedDistressed
Location
Clearwest Limited
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5y · 2019–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsFinancial Health
DistressedDistressed · 0% CAGR over 6y
Location
RIVENHALL GREENHOUSE LIMITED
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1y · 2024–NowFinancial Health
Insufficient historyInsufficient history
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Formula Green Ltd
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2y · 2023–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 2 filingsFinancial Health
StableStable
Location
LM LOGAN CONSULTANCY LIMITED
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5y · 2021–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsFinancial Health
DistressedDistressed · -68% CAGR over 4y
Location
CREDO FRESH LIMITED
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3y · 2023–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 3 filingsFinancial Health
StrongStrong · 100% CAGR over 1y
Location
Bullyz & Beyond Ltd
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3y · 2023–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 3 filingsFinancial Health
DistressedDistressed · 0% CAGR over 2y
Location
POWELL'S OF COOLHAM LIMITED
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4y · 2022–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 4 filingsFinancial Health
DistressedDistressed · -78% CAGR over 3y
Location
WOODHOUSE FARM (SUSSEX) LIMITED
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5y · 2021–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsFinancial Health
StableStable · -16% CAGR over 4y
Location
COOPER'S THE FARRIERS LIMITED
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5y · 2020–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsFinancial Health
WeakWeak · -20% CAGR over 5y
Location
Newtimber Land Management Ltd
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5y · 2021–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsProvides tree surgery and forestry services including tree surveying, pruning, crown reduction, felling, stump grinding, hedge trimming, site clearance and tree planting, as well as woodland…
Serves homeowners, landowners, woodland owners and property or site managers needing tree and woodland management support.
Financial Health
StrongStrong · Growing, Hiring · 6% CAGR over 4y
Location
J & H ROBINSON (IFORD FARMS) LIMITED
Trajectory
5y · 2021–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsOperates a rural estate providing arable and livestock farming, contract farming, and environmental land management. Also lets holiday lodges, residential and commercial property, and offers leisure…
Serves a mix of B2B and B2C customers, including agricultural partners, property and workspace tenants, holidaymakers, wedding parties, and leisure users such as anglers, shooters and equestrian…
Financial Health
StableStable · -65% CAGR over 4y
Location
UK VINE CARE LIMITED
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3y · 2022–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 3 filingsProvides vineyard establishment and management services including vineyard design and planting, trellising installation and supply of materials, vineyard labour, and viticulture consultancy to…
Serves UK vineyard owners, operators and landowners, including clients planting new vineyards and established vineyards requiring ongoing viticulture support.
Financial Health
DistressedDistressed · -34% CAGR over 2y
Location
County Tree Surgeons Limited
Trajectory
5y · 2021–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsProvides tree surgery and arboricultural services including tree pruning, felling and maintenance, land clearance, woodland management, and forestry consultancy. Also conducts tree safety and BS5837…
Serves local authorities, county councils, landscaping companies and residential customers across South East England, including West and East Sussex, Surrey, Kent and London.
Financial Health
StableStable · -6% CAGR over 4y
Location
Evergreen Rural Limited
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2y · 2024–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 2 filingsFinancial Health
HealthyHealthy · 0% CAGR over 1y
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BROCKWELLS FORESTRY LIMITED
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3y · 2023–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 3 filingsProvides vegetation management and tree clearance services for overhead utility power lines up to 132kV. Services include live line cutting, emergency and resilience clearance, surveying and…
Serves UK utility network operators and infrastructure contractors responsible for overhead power lines, including clients managing high-voltage networks and related access equipment needs.
Financial Health
StableStable · 0% CAGR over 2y
Location
KPS COMPOSTING SERVICES LIMITED
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3y · 2023–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 3 filingsProvides tree surgery, landscaping, fencing, and garden maintenance services. Operates green waste recycling and mobile composting, wood chipping and biomass production, site clearance and stump…
Serves homeowners, landowners, estates and commercial sites needing outdoor property support, plus residential and commercial fencing customers across Sussex, Surrey and Kent.
Financial Health
StableStable · 0% CAGR over 2y
Location
Twineham Timber Limited
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5y · 2021–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsFinancial Health
HealthyHealthy · 0% CAGR over 4y
Location
K.P.S. CONTRACTORS LIMITED
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3y · 2023–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 3 filingsProvides tree surgery, landscaping, garden maintenance, fencing, and site clearance for residential and commercial clients. Also operates green waste recycling and composting services, wood chipping…
Serves homeowners and commercial clients with gardens, grounds, woodlands and outdoor sites, including residential property owners, businesses needing grounds maintenance or fencing, and customers in…
Financial Health
StableStable · -7% CAGR over 2y
Location
NUTBOURNE NURSERY LTD
Trajectory
4y · 2022–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 4 filingsGrows and supplies tomatoes and other fresh produce, cultivating more than 25 tomato varieties in commercial greenhouses and distributing seasonal crops to food retailers, wholesalers, and catering…
Financial Health
StableStable · -79% CAGR over 3y
Location
VINE-WORKS LTD
Trajectory
5y · 2020–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsSupplies equipment and materials for vineyards and fruit growers through an online shop, including trellising, posts, guards, tools and vine plants. Provides vineyard establishment and management…
Sells to UK vineyard owners, wine producers and fruit growers, including new vineyard developers and established estates needing viticulture supplies, management support, harvest labour, fruit…
Financial Health
WeakWeak · -17% CAGR over 5y
Location
Peter Eastwood Plants Limited
Trajectory
3y · 2023–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 3 filingsGrows and wholesales garden plants from a commercial nursery, supplying garden centres, landscape contractors and large planting projects. Product range includes seasonal bedding plants, primroses,…
Serves garden centres, landscape gardeners and organisations managing large planting schemes across South East England, with a primarily wholesale B2B customer base.
Financial Health
WeakWeak · -6% CAGR over 2y
Location
Court Garden Limited
Trajectory
4y · 2021–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 4 filingsProduces sparkling and still wines and vermouth from estate-grown grapes at its vineyard and winery. Sells bottled wine online and offers vineyard tours and guided tastings explaining vine growing…
Serves UK consumers, wine buyers and gift purchasers seeking English wine online, plus visitors and tourists booking vineyard tours and tastings in East Sussex.
Financial Health
StableStable · 0% CAGR over 4y
Location
NEWTIMBER ESTATE LTD
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5y · 2021–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsFinancial Health
StableStable · -68% CAGR over 4y
Location
The World Preservation Foundation Ltd
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5y · 2020–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsFinancial Health
StableStable
Location
CALEY BROTHERS LIMITED
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5y · 2021–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsFinancial Health
DistressedDistressed
Location
ELMSDOWN FORESTRY LIMITED
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5y · 2021–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsFinancial Health
WeakWeak · 0% CAGR over 4y
Location
Wealden Heartwood Enterprises Limited
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5y · 2020–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsFinancial Health
WeakWeak · 0% CAGR over 4y
Location
THE HOLWOOD TRUST LIMITED
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4y · 2022–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 4 filingsFinancial Health
StableStable
Location
Rocks Woodlands Limited
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3y · 2023–NowFinancial Health
Insufficient historyInsufficient history
Location
Prenplants Sussex Limited
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5y · 2022–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsPropagates and grows container‑grown, peat‑free plants at a wholesale nursery, including herbaceous perennials, grasses, bulbs, shrubs, ferns and climbers. Supplies plant varieties to garden centres,…
Serves trade buyers including garden and plant centres, garden designers, landscape gardeners and local authorities, alongside retail customers and group visit/event visitors in the Sussex/Surrey…
Financial Health
HealthyHealthy · Hiring · 3% CAGR over 4y
Location
ONE GARDEN BRIGHTON LIMITED
Trajectory
5y · 2020–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsOperates a public walled garden attraction with a café, bakery and retail market selling plants grown on site and local produce. Hosts workshops, festivals and community events, and provides venue…
Serves local consumers and visitors, families, gardeners, café and shop customers, school groups and course learners, plus private event and wedding organisers seeking venue hire.
Financial Health
DistressedDistressed
Location
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How Brighton agri-forestry companies work and how to sell to them
What they do
Revenue usually comes from repeat site work rather than a single product sale. Brighton agri-forestry operators earn through maintenance agreements, planting and felling projects, estate support, crop-related contracting and countryside-management work. Pricing is typically fixed-fee for defined jobs, day-rate or crew-rate for field labour, and retained or seasonal for recurring land-management duties. Machinery, transport, waste handling, insurance and permissions sit inside the commercial model, so gross margin depends on scheduling and utilisation as much as headline rates. Timber, crop or green-waste revenue may add ancillary income, but most operators look more like practical service businesses than product-led suppliers.
Who they sell to
Buyers are practical budget holders: estate managers, private landowners, farm managers, local authority environment teams, contractors and organisations sponsoring environmental projects. Smaller jobs may be agreed after a site visit, quote and proof of insurance; public-sector or scheme-funded work tends to involve written specifications, tender portals, frameworks or contractor panels. Decision-makers usually care about availability, local access, plant and machinery, safety record, permissions and evidence that crews can complete weather-dependent work. Sales cycles are therefore uneven: emergency tree work can move quickly, while woodland, habitat or estate programmes may sit in planning for months.
What they buy
Most Brighton agri-forestry firms tend to spend on things that keep field teams working and records defensible. Common purchase areas include vehicle and machinery finance, maintenance, fuel management, PPE, training, insurance, health-and-safety support, accountancy, payroll, bookkeeping and seasonal labour. Software spend is usually practical rather than speculative: job scheduling, quote-to-invoice workflows, asset tracking, mapping, compliance records, document storage and basic CRM for repeat landowner relationships. Firms bidding for public or environmental work may also buy bid support, ecological advice, legal review, marketing materials and website improvements that make capability easier to evidence.
Why and how to sell to them
Commercial intent often shows up when workloads become harder to coordinate: a new maintenance contract, extra field crews, machinery purchases, a public tender, a scheme-funded planting programme or a change in operations leadership. Pain points tend to be seasonal cash flow, weather disruption, labour availability, subcontractor control and the administrative gap between site notes, permissions, photographs, invoices and compliance records. Outreach usually works better when it recognises that these are time-poor operators. A useful angle is less about abstract productivity and more about fewer missed jobs, cleaner audit trails, faster billing and easier proof of competence to landowners and public buyers.
How this list is built
Data sources
This list is built from UK Companies House filings, XBRL accounts data, and semantic analysis of each company's public website. Revenue and headcount figures come from the most recent filed accounts; where the company has not filed, values are estimated using a model trained on filed history and peer benchmarks and are labelled as estimates.
Classification
Rather than relying solely on SIC codes, Firmbase classifies each company semantically: the company's website is crawled, an AI model reads what the company actually sells, and the company is placed into the relevant industry and subsectors. SIC codes are used as one signal but not the only one. This means a company that registered under a generic SIC code but pivoted into (for example) fintech is correctly identified as fintech, not as its original SIC category.
Freshness
The underlying company data is refreshed from Companies House continuously; filings appear in the list within days of submission. The curated list ordering is regenerated when the underlying data moves meaningfully (company count changes by more than 5%, a new company enters the top-ranked segment, or the filed-revenue numbers for the top firms change). You can see the last-updated timestamp near the top of the page.
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