The Woodland Way: A Permaculture Approach to Sustainable Woodland Management

Rating:
Summary: Not quite sure what I expected
Review: Something to tell me exactly what to do with my Tennessee woods, I guess. And no British book is going to do that.

Last year a British on-line acquaintance told me that those tales of the early settlers in Tennessee being able to drive their ox-carts through the forest without getting stuck in the trees meant that the Indians were grooming the forest, had put a lot of thought and energy into making sure that the forest could sustain them. I wasn't sure what he meant. This book tells me. How he rotates his crops--cut some of the willow for artist's charcoal, a couple of years later, for rustic furniture, then let it come back from the stumps. In the meantime, blackberries can grow and fruit in the clearing, and a fairly rare bird just loves to nest there. The birds can move on to the next patch of cut back to the stumps by the time the blackberries are in too much shade and the willow is about ready to be cut a little bit for artist's charcoal.

So I'm now busily wondering how I apply this to my woods.

Rating:
Summary: Not quite sure what I expected
Review: Something to tell me exactly what to do with my Tennessee woods, I guess. And no British book is going to do that.

Last year a British on-line acquaintance told me that those tales of the early settlers in Tennessee being able to drive their ox-carts through the forest without getting stuck in the trees meant that the Indians were grooming the forest, had put a lot of thought and energy into making sure that the forest could sustain them. I wasn't sure what he meant. This book tells me. How he rotates his crops--cut some of the willow for artist's charcoal, a couple of years later, for rustic furniture, then let it come back from the stumps. In the meantime, blackberries can grow and fruit in the clearing, and a fairly rare bird just loves to nest there. The birds can move on to the next patch of cut back to the stumps by the time the blackberries are in too much shade and the willow is about ready to be cut a little bit for artist's charcoal.

So I'm now busily wondering how I apply this to my woods.