The Coppice Project covers the agroforestry practice of "coppicing", which refers to the practice of intentionally shaping the trees with strategic cutting to promote the growth of many small shoots instead of slowly developing into a single trunk.
Land Management Program
- Leverage the growth capabilities of applicable species of tree and shrub
- create alternative means of land management for local farmers
- create habitat
- propagate and spread the practice of coppicing as far as we can
- Establish a significant number of local coppice rotations
- Form solid flows of production processes to utilize the produced material
- Land managers
- Rural land-owners
- Farmers
- Craft workers (e.g. greenwood workers, Wood workers, basket weavers, Tool makers)
- Land preparation
- Propagation
- Planting
- Tending
- Cutting (Coppicing, pollarding)
- Processing material
- Staves and stakes
- Animal fodder
- Habitat
- Charcoal (e.g. bio-char, artists charcoal)
- Basketry material
- Fencing
- Tool handles
- Mushroom log bolts