About us
Coppice.co.uk aims to share know-how and enthusiasm for coppice traditions. This website aims to be practical - concentrating on what works with chestnut, hazel and other coppices. Obviously safeguarding and working coppice is generally a good thing, however, there may be woodlands where it is sensible to work towards different aims.
This website is a work in progress and we welcome comments and articles from you and we will update the site regularlarly. Your comments will be moderated before appearing.
Coppice.co.uk sponsored by woodlands.co.uk and woodlandstv.co.uk - both these sites aim to encourage the conservation and management of small woods. Woodlands.co.uk makes smaller areas of woodland available for family forestry whilst woodlandstv has a wide range of demonstration videos about bushcraft, woodland tools and woodland management.
We owe a great deal of thanks to Ashley Peace for his wonderful photos from his treeblog.
As well as featuring hundreds of tree photos - anything from leaves to forests - treeblog documents the development of several trees from seed to seedling and beyond while regularly posting news and information on trees in general.
If you are a Small Woodland Owner you might like to join SWOG.(Small woodland owners group)
Comments on this article
Robert Sheppard 18 January, 2012
I am about to plant a new copse in Ladywell Fields, London SE13 using 105 plants provided by the Woodland Trust. The Council which owns the land has been very co-operative but is asking for some sort of management plan. I would like to discuss this with someone (ideally a club/society based in Kent or reasonably nearby) who might be able to help and perhaps, in 7-10ish years time help with the first coppicing. exercise.
I welcome any advice.
Best wishes,
Tracy 19 January, 2012
Hi Robert
You could try the coppice group (does include Kent)
http://coppicegroup.wordpress.com/
or your local forestry commission officer.
Hope this helps
Tracy