Small scale coppice and woodland management on TV

[lackancottage]

We have a few acres of birch growing on cut over bog, that I initially thought wouldn't be much use, but have since found a good few people coppicing birch successfully and so have begun to tackle ours. We're planting another acre of woodland, so the forestry guy was out, and he persuaded us that it would be better to stick with SRC birch than to start putting in willow.
Just in time for me to start getting stuck in, I discovered the 'Tales from the Wild Wood' series on BBC4, which is actually very good. Its here on iplayer - www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01ndkwq and is well worth a look.

[cye]

i had a look at the tales of the wild wood. lovely. thanks for posting the link.

how long ago did you plant the birch?

[cye]

steve,

that bbc programme again, the welsh guys who featured i'd come across before because they have built a commercial variant of the rocket mass heater

www.blackmountainwoodfuels.co.uk/stickStoves.html

www.redpigfarm.co.uk/

you've got me all fired up again about this stuff.

anyone want to start up a woodlanders collective in NI?