Apsley Farms

What Apsley Farms does

Apsley Farms is a family-owned UK farming and energy production business (under the du Val de Beaulieu family since 1936), operating a 1,150-acre estate near Andover, Hampshire, and trading legally as Yelspa Limited. Its core technology is an anaerobic digestion (AD) plant that converts arable break crops (rye, maize, barley, grass, sugar beet) into three revenue outputs: biomethane injected into the UK gas grid via an SGN pipeline (the site is the UK's third-largest biomethane plant, supplying roughly 8,500–10,000 homes); food-grade liquid CO2 captured and liquefied on-site for breweries, bakeries, and cheese manufacturers; and digestate returned to land as organic fertiliser, also packaged for partner farms and consumers. Since 2016, the company has produced over 60,000 tonnes of food-grade liquid CO2 and operates its own bulk tanker fleet plus an on-site Uni Sensor Carboscan 24/7 testing laboratory.

The business operates two commercial fronts. Energy customers are addressed via direct enterprise relationships and pipeline infrastructure (industrial CO2 off-takers and the UK gas grid). Consumer and horticulture customers are served through a dedicated e-commerce storefront at mulch.apsleyfarms.com, a dryice.apsleyfarms.com sub-brand, a 10-van in-house delivery fleet (with cranes) covering a ~50-mile free local radius, and a nationwide UK pallet-delivery service, supplemented by a stockist network. Gardening SKUs include Soil Improving Mulch, Natural Plant Food (5L, 7.5L bundles, 1000L IBC), Woodchip, Ready Mix, Summer Top Dressing, Multi Purpose Top Soil, and Premium Screened Top Soil, all Soil Association-approved for organic use. The company is led by Henry du Val de Beaulieu (Senior Director) and Edward du Val de Beaulieu (Operations Manager), with no external institutional investors disclosed.

Name

Apsley Farms

Legal name

Yelspa Limited

Website

https://apsleyfarms.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1936

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Apsley Farms is a UK family-owned farming and energy business running a 1,150-acre Hampshire estate with an anaerobic digestion plant that produces biomethane for the UK gas grid, food-grade liquid CO2 for industrial customers, and Soil Association-certified organic gardening products from digestate.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Renewable Energy and Organic Agricultural Products

NAICS

Fertilizer and Compost Manufacturing (32531), Compost Manufacturing (325315)

SIC

Agricultural Services (700), Wholesale-Farm Product Raw Materials (5150)

akta.pro primary industry

Anaerobic Digestion (AD) & Biogas/RNG Production (Organics Feedstocks) (BPALAEAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Bio-based Fertilizers, Soil Amendments & Biostimulants (Digestate-derived, biochar-based inputs) (EUAAAIAH), Digestate & Compost Product Processing, Marketing & Distribution (Soil Amendments, Mulch) (EUAIAEAE), Manure & Organic Residuals Feedstock Supply (Farm Organics for AD/RNG) (EUAAAFAK), Organics Collection & Processing (Composting/Anaerobic Digestion) (IMAIAFAF)

Keywords

• Renewable biomethane production
• Anaerobic digestion services
• Organic gardening products
• Food-grade CO2 supply
• Circular agriculture farming

Headquarters

HQ city

Andover

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Operations, Supply Chain, Personnel, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Biomethane (Renewable Natural Gas): Apsley Farms is the UK's third largest biomethane plant, injecting renewable natural gas into the UK gas grid since 2014. Provides enough biomethane to heat approximately 10,000 typical UK homes year-round. Generates revenue through the sale of biomethane to the gas grid, benefiting from government support mechanisms like the Feed-in Tariff.
2. Food-Grade Liquid CO2: Captures and liquefies CO2 from biogas production and sells bulk liquid CO2 to food and beverage industries (breweries, bakeries, cheese manufacturers). The farm operates its own fleet of tankers for bulk delivery. Revenue is generated through bulk product sales to industrial customers.
3. CO2 Testing Services: Provides on-site CO2 certification of analysis using the Uni Sensor Carboscan system, serving the farm's own CO2 and external facilities needing 24-hour certification.
4. Gardening Products (Mulch, Plant Food, Top Soil): Sells soil improving mulch, natural plant food (in various sizes including 5L, 7.5L bundle, 1000L IBC), top soil, woodchip, and summer top dressing via the e-commerce site mulch.apsleyfarms.com. Revenue from one-time product sales with free local delivery and pallet delivery nationwide. Multi-buy discounts are offered.
5. Digestate / Fertiliser Products: Digestate from the anaerobic digestion process is returned to land as fertiliser. Also offered to partnering farms for use on their land, contributing to a circular farming model.
6. Dry Ice: Apsley Farms produces and sells dry ice as a product of the CO2 liquefaction process, available via dryice.apsleyfarms.com.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Apsley Farms operates an anaerobic digestion plant on its 1,150-acre Hampshire estate that converts ensiled arable crops into biomethane for injection into the UK gas grid and food-grade liquid CO2 for industrial customers. It sells organic Soil Association-certified gardening products (mulch, plant food, top soil, woodchip) via its own e-commerce site as by-products of the energy process. Additional offerings include dry ice, digestate fertiliser, and an on-site CO2 certification/testing service.

Product overview

Apsley Farms is a family-run farming and energy production business operating a 1,150-acre estate in Hampshire, UK. The company operates through two primary divisions: energy production (biomethane and renewable CO2) and gardening products. The energy division runs one of the UK's largest biomethane plants, producing renewable natural gas for the UK gas grid and capturing food-grade CO2 as a sustainable by-product. The gardening products division converts digestate from the anaerobic digestion process into a range of certified organic soil improvers and liquid plant foods, including Soil Improving Mulch, Natural Plant Food, Natural Tomato Food, Natural Tub and Basket Food, and various soil products. The company also offers CO2 testing services and sells dry ice. All gardening products are Soil Association approved for organic use and sold through the company's online shop at mulch.apsleyfarms.com.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Apsley Farms Mulch: Online shop for gardening products including soil improving mulch, woodchip, top soil, and natural plant food. Available at mulch.apsleyfarms.com
• Apsley Dry Ice

Products and services

• Biomethane (Renewable Natural Gas) Renewable natural gas produced via anaerobic digestion of arable crops and injected into the UK gas grid. Apsley is one of the UK's largest biomethane producers and the plant supplies enough gas to heat approximately 8,500 to 10,000 typical UK homes annually.
• Renewable / Food-Grade Liquid CO2 Food-grade liquid carbon dioxide captured and liquefied as a by-product of the anaerobic digestion process. Supplied in bulk to UK food and beverage manufacturers (breweries, bakeries, cheese manufacturers) via Apsley's own tanker fleet. Over 60,000 tonnes produced to date.
• Dry Ice Dry ice produced from captured CO2 and sold commercially for food and beverage and other industrial applications, available via the Apsley Dry Ice sub-brand storefront.
• CO2 Testing Service On-site CO2 certification of analysis using the Uni Sensor Carboscan automated laboratory system, providing 24/7 CO2 testing services for Apsley's own CO2 output and for third-party facilities.
• Digestate (Natural Fertiliser)

Quantifiable outcome

• Carbon footprint of biomethane is 1/20th that of fossil natural gas
• +6 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• SGN (Scotia Gas Networks)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2014SGN (Scotia Gas Networks) provided significant assistance in connecting Apsley Farms' biogas production to the UK gas grid via a suitable pipeline within the farm's fields. This partnership enabled the farm to convert biogas into biomethane and inject it into the gas grid from 2014, transforming the business from an electricity-only model to grid injection of renewable natural gas.

Scale indicators11 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Air Liquide: Global industrial gas major supplying bulk CO2 (including food-grade) to UK food and beverage customers. Comparable because Air Liquide competes for the same brewery/bakery/cheese CO2 offtake that Apsley serves, but as a much larger diversified industrial-gas incumbent rather than an AD-based niche producer.
• BOC (Linde Group): One of the largest UK industrial and food-grade CO2 suppliers, part of Linde. Comparable because BOC supplies the same food and beverage customers (breweries, bakeries) with CO2 and dry ice, representing the incumbent competitor Apsley is displacing with renewable-sourced CO2.

Emerging players

• Dalefoot Composts: UK producer of peat-free organic composts and soil conditioners sold direct to gardeners. Comparable because Dalefoot competes with Apsley's Soil Association-certified mulch, plant food, and topsoil in the same premium organic gardening channel.
• Melcourt Industries: UK manufacturer of peat-free growing media, mulches, and bark products for professional horticulture. Comparable because Melcourt targets the same professional landscapers, sports-turf managers, and BALI-aligned customers that Apsley supplies with organic soil improvers.

Direct peers

• Eco Sustainable Solutions: UK operator of composting and AD facilities producing soil conditioners and growing media. Comparable because Eco also converts organic feedstocks into soil improvement products sold to horticulture and landscaping customers, overlapping directly with Apsley's gardening-products range.
• Severn Trent Green Power: A major UK AD plant operator producing biomethane and digestate from organic feedstocks. Comparable because both companies run commercial-scale AD producing renewable gas and fertiliser by-products in the UK regulatory environment.
• Future Biogas: UK-based operator of multiple anaerobic digestion plants producing biomethane for grid injection. Direct peer because Apsley and Future Biogas both run multi-feedstock AD facilities injecting into the UK gas grid under the same regulatory framework, with similar feedstock (energy crops) and biomethane offtake economics.
• GENeco (Wessex Water): Operates the UK's largest food-waste-fed AD plant at Avonmouth producing biomethane and renewable CO2. Most directly comparable to Apsley because both produce biomethane for the UK gas grid AND food-grade CO2 as a co-product from AD, sharing the same multi-stream circular-economics logic.
• Biogen (Anaerobic Digestion): UK AD plant developer and operator running food-waste-to-biogas facilities. Comparable because Biogen shares Apsley's model of generating biomethane and nutrient-rich digestate from organic feedstocks, though Biogen typically uses food waste rather than energy crops.
• GreenGas: UK biomethane producer operating AD plants supplying the UK gas grid. Comparable because both Apsley and GreenGas generate renewable natural gas for grid injection from agricultural feedstocks, sharing the same revenue model and policy exposure.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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