Ask an Agroforester Getting Started in Coppice Agroforestry with Mark Krawczyk

Join ASD's Emilie Tweardy as she interviews a renowned expert in the field of Coppice Agroforestry, working towards breaking down the hardest part of a project - getting up the nerve to actually start. You’ll hear the basics of what is increasingly referred to as “resprout silviculture” as we move from goals and site context all the way to making those first cuts. Mark Krawczyk, author of “Coppice Agroforestry” has been fascinated with the art of coppicing and other forms of “resprout silviculture” for the past 20 years, ever since apprenticing with British coppice worker Ben Law in his West Sussex stand of Sweet Chestnut. He’s spent more than 15 years lecturing, teaching, and working with landholders on agroforestry, permaculture, and small-scale forestry projects across the US, Canada and beyond, and traveling in North America and Europe to understand the ways people harness trees’ remarkable sprouting capabilities in a wide range of contexts.
This series is brought to you by ASD's Agroforestry team, who works to help farmers adopt agroforestry practices that support both conservation and specialty crop production. The Agroforestry team also operates an Herb Hub in Duffield, VA, that provides training, processing facilities, on-farm technical assistance, and marketing support for herb growers. For more information about our work, visit asdevelop.org/agroforestry or asdevelop.org/herbhub.
Timestamp
0:00 Welcome and Introduction
1:00 About ASD
7:48 Introducing Mark Krawczyk
13:20 Mark’s Presentation Begins
38:28 Quickfire Round 1
41:30 Highly Recommended Multi-Purpose Species
43:25 Species for Resprout Mushroom Logs
46:26 Underrepresented Species
48:53 Redbuds, Human to Species Interactions
53:11 Rotations, Rest, Recovery, and Overdoing It
56:43 Timeline for Coppicing Newly Planted Trees
58:37 Mechanized Fodder
63:57 Fodder Harvest from Mature Forest
66:02 Tools for Resprout Silviculture
67:46 Useful Infrastructure for Resprout Silviculture
69:52 Quickfire Round 2
72:06 Varieties of Plants and Currants Mark is Growing
77:43 Buying a Froe
79:58 Sweet Chestnut
83:33 Pollarding to Ensure Good Sprouting
85:44 Beech in Resprout Systems
88:47 Bark and Nutrition?
89:29 Biochar Fuel
90:30 Coppicing for Leaves
93:47 Black Locust
99:10 Country Workshop in NC
10:39 Wrapping Up, What’s Next
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