Today we had permaculture educator and designer Andrew Faust out to help us “prune” some trees. We had a couple of black-rot infected, non-producing apple trees in the orchard that we are hoping will coppice. We basically cut them to stumps, and the hope is that in the spring a healthy new shoot will come up.
We also cut down a few small trees farther into the woods to open up light to an old stand of (currently non producing) wild plums. Hopefully they will be a lot happier come this spring…
