Very knowledgable interesting bloke ,really enjoyed the grand designs program on him ,it’s nice to listen to someone who has genuine interest in what they do
i am in michigan and the local second growth woodlands near my house are overrun with sugar maple saplings. they are so pervasive that they have even nearly driven out beech saplings to a handful of tiny pockets at the base of massive old beech specimens, which is a shame to think that in a few decades perhaps there will be only a couple large mature beech trees. so i've started culling sugar maple saplings (using discretion to choose ones that are injured, deformed, root suckers, choking each other, and especially those choking the other species out of the woods) and i have used those cuttings to weave a wattle fence for my garden. they work quite well for it if they are woven within a few days of harvesting. the little bit of impact i've had just feels like the woods can breathe now, where there'd been literally 5+ sugar maple saplings per square foot that sprawled out into an impassible thicket beneath the forest canopy. Now there's few feet of space between handfuls of promising saplings of sugar maples and the lonely beech saplings have had the scales tipped slightly in their favor by buying them a few feet of space and a chance to get sun without 5 sugar maples right on top of it. it's a very gradual return on the effort since it takes years for my targeted interventions to noticeably increase the biodiversity but there is something incredibly rewarding about it. to look at a woodland that is better off because of what you did over the past couple years. these woods have been neglected for decades. one day in the not so distant future i can look at chokecherries, ash, elm, beech, etc all interspersed with wild flowers and know that i made that happen. i don't get paid, i do it in my spare time because i enjoy being in the woods. i suppose the reason i do it is because i admire how beautiful and peaceful the forest is when you walk through it and forget that outside it lies hundreds of square miles of roads, subdivisions, lawns, and parking lots. i know it sounds like i'm some kind of hippy but i'm really just a guy who enjoys being outside. and you really just cant develop an emotional connection (imo) with the concrete of a sidewalk or the humming of cars whizzing by at 50 mph only 20 feet from you that crop dust you with engine exhaust. these don't give a person the sense of inherent belonging or worth that you feel when you can meander your way through the forest where there is no footpath to follow and pass by the most impressive trees as if you could do it blindfolded.
Bernie McKeown. If you had a youtube channel I would follow you through those woods and be inspired to reconnect myself to the forest like I was in my youth. I have moved a lot since my family lost their land when I was a teen. I do not own land now but have found myself in the position of being a caretaker of sorts on mostly cleared piece a land that I would like to do my best to move it in the direction of more biodiversity and creating a sustainable homestead for the family here as my final career this life.
Brilliant, Bernie. Your story is quite inspiring. I live on 5 acres on the edge of Ithaca NY and much of it is pasture. The black walnuts have taken over in large part, mostly due to the squirrels, who love to plant them. I have begun planting a number of other species, some of them medicinal trees such as willow, elder and witch hazel, and some fruit and nut trees I also maintain an extensive herb garden (over 150 species). Some of the trees provide shade for shade loving herbs. I like the idea of using culled trees for wattle fences. The willow I am growing is a smaller medicinal variety which is also used for construction. I learned to love beech trees when visiting England and Hungary. They are amazing trees.
I've seen Ben law on cook on the wild side, and grand designs prickly nut wood and its obvious your incredibly knowledgeable but you can go back to what you have done and watch again and again that's good
The thing is, how does one who is interested in this type of work and gaining the relevant qualifications to do this work, get into it? I don’t have a spare 70 grand lying around to purchase a woodland and build my own house. I don’t own a house to sell. It’s almost impossible, I could start with someone and work for years and years to save the money needed but then It’s waiting years, possibly living with parents for years and years to save a decent amount. By the time I can afford it I’m 50 years old and nearly retired. How can someone with basically nothing achieve this? I envy him so much for being able to do this!
Maybe you can find 20 grand and you try to rent a couple of hectares for the next twenty years and offer to pay for the entire twenty years in one go and then just start to do your thing and see where it all goes. Or emigrate to another part of Europe where land is cheaper and bureaucracy is less heavy. I have been envious of Ben Law for a long time too, still am. I could never find the money to do this kind of thing.
@@franek_izerski well exactly, finding 20 grand is easier said than done. I would love to find 20 grand and buy a woodland and do what I want. I think looking at other places in Europe is probably my best bet for owning my own woodland. I am also envious of Ben Law, thank you for your comment, take care.
@@spencersanderson1894 Iwas not suggesting to buy land but to rent it and find ways to make it profitable. In other parts of Europe not only is it cheaper to buy land but even cheaper to rent it. Owning doesn't mean total freedom these days .
@@franek_izerski Sorry I missed that point. That is a viable option, I will look into it. Yes I can imagine some places in Europe are cheap for buying and renting woodland, thank you for you comment and will bare it in mind!
Thanks for this video. It's such a fascinating subject and it's great to know that there are people like Ben Law to live it and teach it so well and so far. I got drawn into learning about coppicing a couple of days ago whilst watching a series of videos on recognising tree species, and was fascinated to learn that it increases a tree's life span considerably as it keeps it in it's youthful stage. An Ash can live to about 200 years normally, but coppiced up to 800 years! Also there's a tree that is estimated to be between 2000- 3000 years old somewhere in England, can't remember where now. It's mostly at the end of this video. th-cam.com/video/AObTu1DzStc/w-d-xo.html
One behind to understand why so many cultures had Sacred Tree beliefs. When the same tree could house, feed, and warm a tribe for generations until long back before living memory, of course it seemed like a god living among them.
The question is, why does nobody question the authority of the planning department or the council as a whole. 😅 They're a corporation that extorts "people"
There are so many doom goblins out there who think that humanity is a blight on the landscape and don’t understand the importance of human intervention in creating abundance and biodiversity. Unfortunately most of them get degrees in ecology and think they know everything without ever having worked in the countryside and end up in positions of influence doing more harm than good . I have seen this so many times in organisations like the RSPB and various wildlife trusts, where the traditional management practices and economies of the countryside are abandoned when they take over the management of these areas. Unfortunately without people like this who wish to live and work in the countryside we will lose it to the re-wilders and be left with a scrub that is of little use to man nor beast.
Surely the idea that re-wilding means just letting nature take its course is now widely dismissed? Often creating the conditions for the reintroduction of vanished predators is part of the idea. Am I naive to celebrate the widespread return of the Red Kite & support the reintroduction of otters/beavers/pine marten & lynx (if not wolves too) in the UK. I celebrate returning European Bison to large enough enclosures in Blean Woods, East Kent for this, local to me at present, to be called rewilding.
@@PaulCroslandRefugeTreeWoods the idea of re-wilding to me originally was quite appealing, although the re-reintroduction of species, in particular predators could be potentially be a problem for farmers at the very least. I knew and worked with people who were reintroducing the red kites years ago, feeding them and enabling them to establish. I remember travelling through the countryside and seeing the kites almost like crows behind tractors, it was a wonderful site. Sadly, releasing these top predators into the ecosystem comes with consequences and has had a devastating effect on some of the red book species lower down in the food chain. Think how many critters a breeding pair needs to consume in a year and then multiply out. The same can be said for the impact on fisheries, the reintroduction of predator species, into environments that have been carefully stewarded for centuries. The British landscape has evolved over thousands of years, to provide a living landscape to sustain humanity. If the balance is upset on the scale it has been over the last fifty years, a species here and an acre there, this can only have a detrimental impact on our sustainability going forward. Don’t forget that increased re-wilding of agricultural land puts less food in our mouths, and with current situations as they are, we are going to need every acre of land we can to feed our population. We have seen how fragile our food supply systems are, and with food prices increasing and an economy on the down turn things are only going to get worse. Maybe something to ponder on.
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Very knowledgable interesting bloke ,really enjoyed the grand designs program on him ,it’s nice to listen to someone who has genuine interest in what they do
I thought I recognised him.
i am in michigan and the local second growth woodlands near my house are overrun with sugar maple saplings. they are so pervasive that they have even nearly driven out beech saplings to a handful of tiny pockets at the base of massive old beech specimens, which is a shame to think that in a few decades perhaps there will be only a couple large mature beech trees.
so i've started culling sugar maple saplings (using discretion to choose ones that are injured, deformed, root suckers, choking each other, and especially those choking the other species out of the woods) and i have used those cuttings to weave a wattle fence for my garden. they work quite well for it if they are woven within a few days of harvesting.
the little bit of impact i've had just feels like the woods can breathe now, where there'd been literally 5+ sugar maple saplings per square foot that sprawled out into an impassible thicket beneath the forest canopy. Now there's few feet of space between handfuls of promising saplings of sugar maples and the lonely beech saplings have had the scales tipped slightly in their favor by buying them a few feet of space and a chance to get sun without 5 sugar maples right on top of it.
it's a very gradual return on the effort since it takes years for my targeted interventions to noticeably increase the biodiversity but there is something incredibly rewarding about it. to look at a woodland that is better off because of what you did over the past couple years. these woods have been neglected for decades. one day in the not so distant future i can look at chokecherries, ash, elm, beech, etc all interspersed with wild flowers and know that i made that happen.
i don't get paid, i do it in my spare time because i enjoy being in the woods.
i suppose the reason i do it is because i admire how beautiful and peaceful the forest is when you walk through it and forget that outside it lies hundreds of square miles of roads, subdivisions, lawns, and parking lots. i know it sounds like i'm some kind of hippy but i'm really just a guy who enjoys being outside. and you really just cant develop an emotional connection (imo) with the concrete of a sidewalk or the humming of cars whizzing by at 50 mph only 20 feet from you that crop dust you with engine exhaust. these don't give a person the sense of inherent belonging or worth that you feel when you can meander your way through the forest where there is no footpath to follow and pass by the most impressive trees as if you could do it blindfolded.
Watch"The Man who Planted Trees". Beautiful.
Bernie McKeown. If you had a youtube channel I would follow you through those woods and be inspired to reconnect myself to the forest like I was in my youth. I have moved a lot since my family lost their land when I was a teen. I do not own land now but have found myself in the position of being a caretaker of sorts on mostly cleared piece a land that I would like to do my best to move it in the direction of more biodiversity and creating a sustainable homestead for the family here as my final career this life.
Brilliant, Bernie. Your story is quite inspiring. I live on 5 acres on the edge of Ithaca NY and much of it is pasture. The black walnuts have taken over in large part, mostly due to the squirrels, who love to plant them. I have begun planting a number of other species, some of them medicinal trees such as willow, elder and witch hazel, and some fruit and nut trees I also maintain an extensive herb garden (over 150 species). Some of the trees provide shade for shade loving herbs. I like the idea of using culled trees for wattle fences. The willow I am growing is a smaller medicinal variety which is also used for construction. I learned to love beech trees when visiting England and Hungary. They are amazing trees.
What a lovely knowledgeable man. Would like to see more videos of his coppice work and products.🌳
I've seen Ben law on cook on the wild side, and grand designs prickly nut wood and its obvious your incredibly knowledgeable but you can go back to what you have done and watch again and again that's good
The thing is, how does one who is interested in this type of work and gaining the relevant qualifications to do this work, get into it? I don’t have a spare 70 grand lying around to purchase a woodland and build my own house. I don’t own a house to sell. It’s almost impossible, I could start with someone and work for years and years to save the money needed but then It’s waiting years, possibly living with parents for years and years to save a decent amount. By the time I can afford it I’m 50 years old and nearly retired. How can someone with basically nothing achieve this? I envy him so much for being able to do this!
Maybe you can find 20 grand and you try to rent a couple of hectares for the next twenty years and offer to pay for the entire twenty years in one go and then just start to do your thing and see where it all goes. Or emigrate to another part of Europe where land is cheaper and bureaucracy is less heavy. I have been envious of Ben Law for a long time too, still am. I could never find the money to do this kind of thing.
@@franek_izerski well exactly, finding 20 grand is easier said than done. I would love to find 20 grand and buy a woodland and do what I want. I think looking at other places in Europe is probably my best bet for owning my own woodland. I am also envious of Ben Law, thank you for your comment, take care.
@@spencersanderson1894 Iwas not suggesting to buy land but to rent it and find ways to make it profitable. In other parts of Europe not only is it cheaper to buy land but even cheaper to rent it. Owning doesn't mean total freedom these days .
@@franek_izerski Sorry I missed that point. That is a viable option, I will look into it. Yes I can imagine some places in Europe are cheap for buying and renting woodland, thank you for you comment and will bare it in mind!
Thanks for this video. It's such a fascinating subject and it's great to know that there are people like Ben Law to live it and teach it so well and so far. I got drawn into learning about coppicing a couple of days ago whilst watching a series of videos on recognising tree species, and was fascinated to learn that it increases a tree's life span considerably as it keeps it in it's youthful stage. An Ash can live to about 200 years normally, but coppiced up to 800 years! Also there's a tree that is estimated to be between 2000- 3000 years old somewhere in England, can't remember where now. It's mostly at the end of this video.
th-cam.com/video/AObTu1DzStc/w-d-xo.html
One behind to understand why so many cultures had Sacred Tree beliefs. When the same tree could house, feed, and warm a tribe for generations until long back before living memory, of course it seemed like a god living among them.
Wow thank you
India needs such close contacts between the forest department and the farmers to promote agrogorestry.
Nice video thanks. Would love some chestnut in my woods.
The question is, why does nobody question the authority of the planning department or the council as a whole. 😅 They're a corporation that extorts "people"
There are so many doom goblins out there who think that humanity is a blight on the landscape and don’t understand the importance of human intervention in creating abundance and biodiversity. Unfortunately most of them get degrees in ecology and think they know everything without ever having worked in the countryside and end up in positions of influence doing more harm than good . I have seen this so many times in organisations like the RSPB and various wildlife trusts, where the traditional management practices and economies of the countryside are abandoned when they take over the management of these areas. Unfortunately without people like this who wish to live and work in the countryside we will lose it to the re-wilders and be left with a scrub that is of little use to man nor beast.
Surely the idea that re-wilding means just letting nature take its course is now widely dismissed? Often creating the conditions for the reintroduction of vanished predators is part of the idea. Am I naive to celebrate the widespread return of the Red Kite & support the reintroduction of otters/beavers/pine marten & lynx (if not wolves too) in the UK. I celebrate returning European Bison to large enough enclosures in Blean Woods, East Kent for this, local to me at present, to be called rewilding.
@@PaulCroslandRefugeTreeWoods the idea of re-wilding to me originally was quite appealing, although the re-reintroduction of species, in particular predators could be potentially be a problem for farmers at the very least. I knew and worked with people who were reintroducing the red kites years ago, feeding them and enabling them to establish. I remember travelling through the countryside and seeing the kites almost like crows behind tractors, it was a wonderful site. Sadly, releasing these top predators into the ecosystem comes with consequences and has had a devastating effect on some of the red book species lower down in the food chain. Think how many critters a breeding pair needs to consume in a year and then multiply out. The same can be said for the impact on fisheries, the reintroduction of predator species, into environments that have been carefully stewarded for centuries. The British landscape has evolved over thousands of years, to provide a living landscape to sustain humanity. If the balance is upset on the scale it has been over the last fifty years, a species here and an acre there, this can only have a detrimental impact on our sustainability going forward. Don’t forget that increased re-wilding of agricultural land puts less food in our mouths, and with current situations as they are, we are going to need every acre of land we can to feed our population. We have seen how fragile our food supply systems are, and with food prices increasing and an economy on the down turn things are only going to get worse. Maybe something to ponder on.