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.
He recovers the lost tradition that sustained human life and culture for ten millennia..
Arborist William Bryant Logan offers us both practical knowledge about how to live with Trees to mutual benefit and hope that humans may again learn what the persistence and generosity of Trees can teach.
Rather, it created the healthiest, most sustainable and diverse woodlands that we have ever known.
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
