9781612123493

Put your wooded land to work! This comprehensive manual shows you how to use your woodlands to produce everything from wine and mushrooms to firewood and livestock feed. You’ll learn how to take stock of your woods; use axes, bow saws, chainsaws, and other key tools; create pasture and silvopasture for livestock; prune and coppice trees to make fuel, fodder, and furniture; build living fencing and shelters for animals; grow fruit trees and berries in a woodland orchard; make syrup from birch, walnut, or boxelder trees; and much more. Whether your property is entirely or only partly wooded, this is the guide you need to make the best use of it.

Brett McLeod is the author of American Axe and The Woodland Homestead and an avid axe collector and restorer. Before becoming a forestry professor and coach of the woodsmen’s team at Paul Smith’s College in the Adirondack Park, he was a professional competitive lumberjack in the Stihl Ironjack Series and competed in the Stihl Timbersports Collegiate Series. He lives in northern New York with his wife and his collection of 200 vintage axes.

Foreword
Preface

Chapter 1: Seeing the Forest Through the Trees: How to Unlock Your Woodlot's Potential

Taking Stock
Evaluating Your Options
Your Woodland Eye

Chapter 2: Tools and Techniques: Essentials for the Homestead Woodlot

The Axe
From Rusty to Trusty: Restoring an Old Axe
Felling and Chopping
The Peavey
The Bow Saw
The Chainsaw
Splitting Firewood
Skidding Logs
The Portable Sawmill

Chapter 3: Animals in the Forest: From Stumps to Greener Pastures

Silvopasture
The Closed-Loop Silvopasture Sequence
Pork Power for Stumps and Soil
Taking Stock of Livestock
Multispecies Grazing

Chapter 4: The Coppice Forest: Fauna, Fodder, Fuel and Furniture

A Brief History of Coppice Forestry
Establishing a Coppice Woodlot
Creative Woodlot Tending
Coppice with Standards
Fauna in Your Forest
Coppicing for Fodder
Coppicing for Charcoal
Forest Furniture

Chapter 5: Woodland Structures: From Living Fence to Living Barn

Fencing Psychology
A Short History of Living Fences
Living Fence for the Homestead
Inosculation Hedges
The Living Fencepost
Formerly Living Fenceposts
Building with Stumps
Shelterbelts
The Living Barn

Chapter 6: Giving Trees: Fruit, Honey, and Syrup

The Homestead Orchard
Deciding What to Grow
The Multipurpose Forest Micro-Orchard
The Art of Planting
Resurrecting the Woodland Orchard
Bees in the Woodland Homestead
Cellar and Cider: Enjoying the Harvest
The Homestead Sugarbush

Chapter 7: Farming The Forest Floo: Nuts, Berries, Mushrooms, and More

Hugelkulter: A Whole-Tree Composting System
Cultivating Forest Edibles
Edibles, Medicinals, and Miscellany
Baskets, Burls, and Birch Bark

A Typical Woodland Homestead Calendar
Resources
Index

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The Woodland Homestead

The Woodland Homestead

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