![]() ![]() Hello Everyone, this was very interesting indeed. A mixed specie system could be better in some ways, but monocropping has it's advantages too and I think that is just dependent on site, goal, scale and other circumstances. I do know that large pollarded mulberries can grow a lot of wood in one season. But, I don't have a lot of experience with mulberry. Other coppiceable plants may work as well or better in the biomass production department, but I can't think of any temperate plants that are as likely as mulberry to combine a high value crop (money and food) and high biomass production. ![]() It could get more complicated or elegant (or elegantly) complicated, from there, but for now I'm mostly interested in performance of mulberry as a coppice in terms of fruit and biomass production, specifically the feasibility of fruit production combined with high biomass production, or if those two goals are incompatible when it comes to Mulberry. The idea is more of an experiment on a specific idea or focus, which is an area providing feedstock for it's own biochar to improve site soil. For mulberries grown as a food crop, hand harvesting would be much easier with a coppice as would netting the bushes to keep birds off and everything else except maybe pollarding or coppicing itself might be easier on a head height tree than near the ground. For me, now, it would be a fenced area with no large animals allowed. Coppice or pollard could be better depending on circumstances. But, I could see maybe having rabbits or other livestock and hand harvesting leaves or lopping stuff for them from the coppice. I don't really have livestock plans and prefer to remain flexible in that and all design departments because life has a way of changing. ![]()
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