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In the Coppice November 30, 2006

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This week first year permaculture students from Kinsale College had the opportunity to visit a working hazel coppice near Kealkill in West Cork, where Saul Mossbacher has been restoring a woodland into a coppice rotation over the past 8 years.

I have helped out a little during most of those years and have always come away with a few yurt poles, but this year, instead of the usual mixed bag of chunky firewood, some useful furniture-grade wood and a few yurt poles, we harvested the first re-growth from the first cut 8 years ago, which yielded hundreds of useful poles. (more…)