Workshop

Coppice Agroforestry with Mark Krawczyk

Explore this Section:

Date/Time

January 16, 2023 - March 6, 2023
All Day

Related Publication

How to Guide for a Community Food Forest

This handbook is designed to help you build a micro food forest tied to your community. It is the culmination of a program put together by the Cowichan Green Community to design a community food forest on a steep, underutilized space around their urban building.

This publication was produced by Cowichan Green Community.

50% of the proceeds from the sale of this publication goes directly back to Cowichan Green Community's efforts.

Learn more and purchase this guide.

More Upcoming Events

Overview

Learn how to design, establish and maintain a coppice agroforestry system for your own landscape and explore how to turn products into diverse wood-based enterprises.

Why Coppice Agroforestry?

Coppicing is a "cut and come again" type of forestry. It’s a way of managing trees and shrubs by cutting them down, allowing them to regrow, and then harvesting the maturing sprouts for a diverse range of value added products. It’s a practice that’s deeply embedded in human history around the world, but it’s virtually unknown in temperate North America.

Leveraging the remarkable fact that most trees don't die when you cut them, they resprout, participants in this course have the opportunity to learn how to apply coppice agroforestry to their special area of interest. The “Polewood Economy” recognizes the value and utility of small diameter wood products, used in the round, for many applications including - fuelwood, craft and building materials, propagation stock, chop and drop farm fertility, livestock fodder, production opportunities on marginal land, and much more.

Uniquely tailored to temperate North America (but applicable to landscapes spanning the globe), we know of no other English-language course that covers the history, biology, ecology, economy, design and management of these sprout-based practices so extensively.

Who is this workshop for?

This workshop is for homesteaders, foresters, homeowners, gardeners, farmers, land managers, land designers and property owners. As well as those that are:

- overwhelmed with information, know a bit about coppice agroforestry but aren't sure where to start;

- foresters who have a holistic view of their work and want to learn more about this management approach;

- agricultural/silvicultural consultants;

- horticulturalists and arborists;

- craftspeople, wood workers, metal workers;

- working with marginal land and seeking unique and diverse perennial production opportunities;

- folks looking to enrich and deepen their relationship with woody plants;

- managing livestock and are striving to improve animal performance and provide alternative fodder sources, and

- looking for opportunities to develop diversified cottage industries.

NOTE - No previous knowledge of coppice agroforestry is required to attend this workshop.

WHEN

Mondays at 4pm PT, 5pm MT, 6pm CT, 7pm ET

60-90 Minutes of Presentation
30 Minutes of Q&A

Class 1 - January 16 - Overview & Cultural History

Class 2 - January 23 - Anatomy & Physiology of Woody Plants

Class 3 - January 30 - Re-sprout Silviculture Systems

Class 4 - February 6 - Products & the Polewood Economy

Class 5 - February 13 - System Design

Class 6 - February 20 - Establishment

Class 7 - February 27 - Maintenance
Class 8 - March 6 - Individual Design Presentations, Questions & Next Steps

To get on the pre-launch list and be notified when the course is open for registration (and a one time special price to access the course) click here.

I implore people to consult with Javan if you need help and are feeling a bit overwhelmed with your farming project. My sister and I would love to have him back to the land one day. He is and will always be a part of…

Nathan & Natalie Riva
Lineman and Marketing - Ayampe, Ecuador