Once, farmers and rural people knew how to prune hazel to foster abundance: both of edible nuts and of straight, strong, flexible rods for bridges, walls, and baskets.
Rather, it created the healthiest, most sustainable and diverse woo.
Pruning the Trees didn\'t destroy them.
No place could prosper without its inhabitants knowing how to cut their Trees so they would Sprout again.
Shipwrights shaped oaks to make hulls.
Townspeople felled their beeches to make charcoal to fuel ironworks.
Once, farmers and rural people knew how to prune hazel to foster abundance: both of edible nuts and of straight, strong, flexible rods for bridges, walls, and baskets