![]() In this journey from the English fens to Spain, Japan, and California, William Bryant Logan rediscovers what was once an everyday ecology. Rather, it created the healthiest, most sustainable and most diverse woodlands that we have ever known. No place could prosper without its inhabitants knowing how to cut their trees so they would sprout again. Townspeople cut their beeches to make charcoal to fuel ironworks. 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. ![]() ![]() Once, farmers knew how to make a living hedge and fed their flocks on tree-branch hay. Arborist William Bryant Logan recovers the lost tradition that sustained human life and culture for ten millennia. ![]()
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