On Friday, October 17th and Saturday, October 18th, the Horn Farm Center will host renowned ecological designer and agroforestry expert Dave Jacke, author of "Edible Forest Gardens," to explore the craft, science, history, and practice of managing regenerative tree crop systems using ancient "coppicing" techniques.
From harvesting basketry materials to amassing biomass-based fuel, coppicing--the act of cutting and gathering woody materials from trees and shrubs adapted for re-sprouting--is an ecologically-rooted approach to land management. As the imperative to re-localize our impacts on the land grows more urgent, coppicing and related agroforestry practices warrant renewed attention for farmers, land managers, and anyone looking to support human-scale ways to address ecological degradation and climate change.
Dave will guide attendees through the foundations of "resprout silviculture," or the use of coppicing to grow healthy, productive agricultural landscapes while furnishing local needs.
EVENT OCCURS AT TWO LOCATIONS, AND SPACES ARE LIMITED. To learn more and register, visit
https://hornfarmcenter.org/civimessages/event/info/?reset=1&id=1247
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Dave Jacke has researched, designed, managed, and propagated agricultural ecosystems since the 1980s. He is the primary author of the classic two-volume tome Edible Forest Gardens (edibleforestgardens.com/), and contributed meaningfully to Mark Krawczyk’s recent opus Coppice Agroforestry. He homesteads in Western Massachusetts.
This program includes a lecture on the evening of Friday, October 17th followed by a full-day, hands-on workshop on Saturday, October 18th.
The standard cost for both days is $115 with sliding scale options available.
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