Coppest Growth in Mesolithic Ireland

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Coppest growth according to the book Sproutlands is not a single thing but a synthetic ecosystem in which human participation is a key. Far more species of plants, insects, birds and other creatures inhabit such a mixed landscape than would live in an untouched woodland. To cut certain trees at about head height so that grazing animals can't reach the young shoots that sprout from that cut surface while coppicing is cutting closer to the ground so that the new shoots of the tree grow from that stump. This gives me hope for the giving tree even though most apple trees as we learned from the dendrology episode are grafted. If the giving tree just grows into one that makes shitty mal

What’s the customary 5th Anniversary gift? Apparently… WOOD! So we wrangled our favorite sawmill owner/operator of LA’s Angel City Lumber, Jeff Perry – who rescues downed street trees from the chipper and turns them into beautiful planks, boards, stumps and chonks. We cover everything from forest management to 2x4s, wood grain, burls, bog logs, sawdust, tree disease, asparagus tips, salvaged lumber, kiln drying, Westward expansion, Indigenous forest management, cedar whiff, and how working with wood changes your relationship to death.

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