Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[David Darr <dsdarr@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 4:29 PM, TxBeeFarmer <txbeefarmer@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> A year or two ago I ran across a process of harvesting certain kinds of
> trees for their wood then letting them grow back from the stump and
> harvesting them again some years later.  Evidently, this process continues
> in rotation endlessly and has been practiced for centuries.  I recall
> reading that some of the stumps were many feet in diameter from repeated
> harvesting.  I just can't seem to remember the word for it!
>
> Anyone here know what it's called?

I think you are thinking of coppicing. ---
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coppicing

-David