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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

It might look severe, but coppicing work under way alongside Cambridge’s precious chalk streams will have huge benefits, say ecologists. Work began on 9 February as part of the Greater Cambridge Chalk ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Want to create space and colour and harvest your own firewood? Coppicing trees and shrubs is well worth the effort Let the sunshine in: more light will encourage new plants to colonise Credit: Photo: ...