Coppice Woodland management
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- Rob travels to a 20-acre copse to meet his friend, Mike Reed, and learn about coppicing, the ancient art of sustainable woodland management.
Mike Reed is a professional hedgelayer and coppice worker. He deals with logs and hazel coppice products. Learn more about him here:
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Recorded on location at:
Walton-in-Gordano, UK
March 25th 2022
Presented by Rob Handy.
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Love it, feels like a special feature on Blue Peter
This is brilliant. Not only the coppicing and production of useful goods for local gardeners, but also the fact that a conservation group see the value of it.
I don't know how I missed this when you posted it.
Great little video.
Wonderful work here Rob. I thoroughly enjoyed this episode. Can't wait until the next one already 👍🐠🐟💦
Thank you again, Iain 😊
Beautiful informative video! I'm growing lots of hazel from seed this year for our small tree nursery. Hopefully, in a few years, we'll also coppice some of them.
Thank you, Crina. I'm so glad you liked the videos 🌳🙏🏽😊 All the best with your hazel! 🌱
Really interesting. I never knew the benefits of coppicing and that Hazel has so many uses.
9:54 charcoal Alex! That kiln has been on my land since the begin of the year, just haven't had the energy to do a burn. Looking forward to the charcoal making video.
Woohoo! A new video 😀
Thank you! Interesting to see woodland management from an English perspective. Lovely music.
Hi Rob great to see you again really look forward to your videos..
What a great video and so informative. Looking forward to the charcoal burning episode.
Great episode, I met Mike last year and he kindly gave us some Willow cuttings for our garden. I also spotted Geoff Hannis lurking in the back this video as well 😂. Good company Rob
Thanks! That's all wonderful to hear 🌳🪓😌
Very interesting, thx!
Me and Mike have the same style billhook. His looked like a Norfolk which is the same as mine, fantastic billhook. Thank you for the video, very informative and fun! I’ve actually just emailed Mike about some work as he’s very local to me and it’s hard to find people who do this sort of stuff!
Great video ❤
Have you got any orchids flowers yes you know orchids flowers in the garden I "'ll love to see them 😍😎😚🏘🐒🎧
Are there any basket makers in the area that could use the brash perhaps?
Quite possibly! If there are then I believe Mike will be on the case 🧺😉
Intriguing. Would it be possible to combine coppicing of hazel with nut harvest? (or will the hazel take too long time to regrow and make nuts)
It can be combined but this management is not for nut harvest - it’s for limb biomass. If you look at hazelnut farms, the trees are usually pruned & managed like a fruit tree; ie 1 trunk, small flaring crown, fairly dense plantings, irrigated, etc. The nuts grow near the ends of the stems & when they’re allowed a natural regrowth from coppice, the majority of the nuts are simply inaccessible.
a chainsaw is not traditional.
The thing about it is, 90% of the coppice is now held by the state and their subsidiaries (national trust, forestry commission, councils, etc). These people are incredibly elitist and the result of centuries of enclosures and repression of rural commoners (not today's false and misleadingly narrow definition, everyone who isn't landed nobility). They will now permission no new woodsmen to work the abandon coppice. They want the common people dispossessed of the land entirely.
Sadly, I agree. The question is, what shall we do about it?
@@robsdiscovery work it anyway
Here here! 👊🏽🪓
Slow talking
Do you mean the talking is too slow for you? Or do you mean you like the slower pace of talking? 🤔