We’ll also discuss both establishing new plantings and converting existing woodlands to coppice agroforestry. Maple Farm is a 138-hectare organic farm of. Book - 2022 'Coppice Agroforestry is a comprehensive guide to resprout silviculture-coppicing, pollarding, shredding, and pleaching hardwood trees for firewood, building materials, furniture, basketry, and more. This case study looks at the benefits of agroforestry for timber, biodiversity, coppice and nut production. Birch (Betula spp.) Black walnut (Juglans nigra) Can be coppiced or pollarded Black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) Nitrogen fixer. Alders (Alnus spp.) Nitrogen-fixers, can be pollarded. Short rotation shrub or coppice biomass crops (trees including poplars. Those species which coppice or pollard well can be used to provide sustainable fuelwood production. We’ll explore “leaf hay” animal fodder, mulch production in coppice blocks for integration into orchards, and firewood and mushroom log production. Coppice agroforestry Tending trees for product, profit, & woodland ecology. The production of some specialty crops may be enhanced in the shade of the tree rows. Transitioning to Alley Cropping Systems (ACSs) could. On Saturday, we’ll get get involved in participatory design. Short Rotation Coppice systems (SRCs) for bioenergy production are being converted back to arable land.
Coppicing is also a valuable tool for responding to climate change and could be used on every small farm.įriday night’s lecture we’ll engage all of these questions and explore the history, culture, biology, and management systems of woody resprouts. Cut and come again forestry reviving the ancient practice of resprout silviculture to power local woodland-based economies. A permanent system of forest cultivation called coppice-with-standards evolved in the British Isles over the past thousand years, which provided a large range of productsfrom construction timber to fencing and furniture parts to fruits, nuts, honey, and wild gamewhile maintaining continuous forest cover.
The breadth of possible products from woody resprouts ranges widely-fencing, garden poles, charcoal and gates to name a few.
Join us for two events-a Friday night talk from 6 pm to 8 pm (events sold separately) and a full-day Saturday intensive from 9 am to 4 pm, as we answer these questions: What is coppicing? How does it work? What kinds of coppice systems might we use? How can we establish them? How does coppicing effect ecosystem functions?Ĭoppicing-the intentional harvest and management of woody resprouts to produce small diameter wood-has at least an 8,000-year history in Europe.
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