Coppice Agroforestry Fundamentals (webinar)

Originally broadcast: June 28, 2022
Many trees and shrubs don’t die when you cut them-they resprout! When done to rejuvenate the plant and yield wood products, tree hay, wildlife habitat and other ecosystem services, and more, we call the practice coppicing. In this webinar, we’ll contextualize the practice historically, learn about best practices, promising products and numerous practical ways to integrate coppicing into working landscapes in temperate ecosystems.
With Mark Krawczyk of Keyline Vermont LLC and Valley Clayplain Forest Farm in New Haven, VT and author of the soon-to-be-released book Coppice Agroforestry: Tending Trees for Product, Profit and Woodland Ecology.

[@roxannewoel7754]

Outstanding!

[@frankenz66]

Am in North Arkansas, and was surprised when I had learned this concept we hill folk had practiced for a long time actually was an old concept and had a name. I maintain several sites where I cut the sick timber back damaged from ice, and it being hardwoods, it triggered all these sprouts. I also have Shiitake logs, and see them as a resource for future mushroom logs. They grow pretty fast here. Thanks.

[@frankenz66]

Our Scots-Irish ancestors here most likely knew the name, but it was lost. 😃

[@thePawelSroczynski]

Mark, that was a great lecture! thanks!

[@maecarpenter6735]

Thank you. I've been watching the UK woodland management videos for a long time. The US needs to practice using coppiced wood products more as it helps in carbon sequestration and bringing down the warming of our planet.

[@ExperimentalSimplification]

This is very interesting. I planted a few hybrid poplars 4/5 years ago, I think I will polard a few of them for forage/biomass production.

[@Leeofthestorm]

I think you may be wrong about the potential productivity of a given area of land. If you were to take 1/5th of that coppice would and turn it into charcoal, and another 1/5th cut as ramial (1st year green and leaf wood) to shred for compost to innoculate that charcoal, turning it into biochar, and another 1//5th to use as mulch around each coppice stool for one rotation, you would only get 2/5ths production for that given rotation, but you would make gains in the woodland's ability to hold and store moisture and nutrients that might exceed the land's current capacity as stated near 21 and 22 minutes in this vid. If that was done over 100 or 200 years the land would certainly be more productive. Just a thought.

[@rochrich1223]

Getting cut back all the time; no wonder the Whomping Willow was cross!

[@n0sr3t3p]

Will coppicing a tree keep its root system small?

[@ThisGardenLife]

Nope. It will multiply its root structure