The management technique can allow you to manage woodland, forest or even smaller garden trees in a more sustainable way. Elizabeth has worked since 2010 as a writer and consultant covering gardening, ...

Coppicing may seem, on paper, a somewhat brutal pruning technique as trees or shrubs are cut back to the ground. However, it is a historic and beneficial method of managing plants that comes with ...

You can grow firewood by coppicing trees for firewood in a fraction of the time it takes to raise a tree from seed. Of all the forestry techniques available to woodland owners, few methods are as ...

Meghan Holmes is a writer and documentarian specializing in scientific topics such as the environment, invasive species, sustainability, and food issues. She holds a master's in Southern Studies from ...

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The nightingale population at a Suffolk site considered to be one of Britain’s most important archaeological discoveries could be boosted by an ancient system of woodland management, conservationists ...

A plant that's cut back close to ground level and results in the production of young, vigorous stems has been subject to a process called coppicing. If that process takes place further up the trunk, ...

It was gratifying to see the piece on coppicing (“The ancient craft of coppicing”, House & Home, FT Weekend, February 26). Coppicing is our longest established form of woodland management, with ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. After a year pruning shrubs, dividing and moving herbaceous plants and clearing layers of debris, I have a feel ...

Even if you’ve never been to a Christmas tree farm, you can probably call up a mental picture: a field of shapely evergreens growing in orderly, well-spaced rows. That image wouldn’t be far off for ...