Coppice Agroforestry Workshop with Mark Krawczyk: Part 2
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- As the value of resilience grows increasingly clear, building one’s skillset to include a broad array of strategies and techniques can help buffer against social, economic, and ecological uncertainties. The practice of coppice agroforestry and other forms of resprout silviculture, along with Keyline patterning are powerful tools to inform and diversify approaches to land management.
In this introductory workshop, Mark Krawczyk goes over the fundamentals of coppicing. In part 2, he focuses on 'Tips for Coppicing.' Mark is a grower, ecological planner, and author of the book, 'Coppice Agroforestry'.
To learn more about the work he does, visit www.valleyclayplain.com
This workshop took place in Norway, Maine as part of workshop series from the Center for Ecology-Based Economy.
To learn more about the work CEBE does, visit www.ecologybasedeconomy.org
This video was created by CC at Just One Look Media. For any video production inquiries, visit www.justonelookmedia.com or email justonelookmedia@gmail.com.
Amazing knologist! Hope i know at least a little? The Best...learn to grow plants. ❤
Always cut low. If you start to cut high, your next cut tends to be higher ans the height of the stool creeps up. This allows the stool to fragment and restricts spread. Spread is good as over decades/generations, your stools spread out and you will eventually see stool fragmentation and the tree can (in effect) clone, increasing stool density and increasing the tendency for straight shoots for green wood uses.
Also once the stool gets large, it is the outer stems that tend to succeed with many of the stems towards the centre becoming out-competed for light. Once again, the stool spreads. If you cut high, it can't spread.....
Are you forgetting the entire concept of pollarding?
@@dungeonmaster6292 but if you cut above the ground, but not very high, it is more like coppicing - you don't get any of the benefits of pollarding but you get downsides of not cutting high enough. Pollarding is generally above browsing height of herbivores, that's the main reason it was used.
Besides, if you read the description of this video, you will see that this is a video about 'coppicing', NOT pollarding.
Depends what you want to accomplish, but what are the advantages you see in cutting above the ground but not very far above the ground?
I know some people cut willows like that
Pollarding "solves" the biggest threat to this as a large scale operation: deer browse
No, it only sidesteps it. Deer graze as well as browse and a big part of the issue with deer overstocking is the huge (but poorly documented) impact on ground flora and regeneration of trees from seed. Sorry.....
@@anemone104 how the f*ck is a deer browsing on something pollarded 8 feet in the air? Deer are not climbing trees to get to woody browse. Not sorry.
@@dungeonmaster6292 You can get your regrowth away from Bambi by pollarding. Not disputing that, but have you ever tried pollarding? No problem if you have the kit and the skills or you want to re-cut very frequently with a polesaw. Very time-consuming and plenty of scope for things to go wrong. Pollarding was only done traditionally where the need for timber alongside grazing was overwhelming or in special circumstances - say a parish or county boundary. Pollards were known as widowmakers and for good reason. And pollarding (or a high stob-cut or coppard) is still sidestepping the problem of deer browsing as deer will take out ground flora and natural regeneration of trees from seed as well as ruling out trees for timber. Much better to control the deer. Good, free-range, high quality food. Deer in high numbers also hit arable crops and even stock grazing. In my area you can drive roads at dusk and see groups of over 100 quite easily.
Pollards or stob-cuts also prevent coppice stool expansion. Watch this to find out what that is and why it is important in an ancient woodland: th-cam.com/video/BNT7WjQegFU/w-d-xo.html
And old pollards fall apart if not maintained and get over-topped by maiden trees in geglected woodland.
Watch this for a traditional pollard: th-cam.com/video/FOXRiyAILQM/w-d-xo.html. Or this for effects of deer on ground flora and regen: th-cam.com/video/XyoRxwLMv5g/w-d-xo.html
@@dungeonmaster6292I got a video on my channel of a deer standing on hind legs to eat a tree, head while standing was probably at about 9 feet
@@dungeonmaster6292 you didn't read his comment - he mentioned deer grazing as an issue, which applies to plants on the ground, not the pollarded material. Read his comment again, because you've misunderstood what he was saying