!! In the quiet hours of the bootcamp grind, I found myself: Esteban's Bootcamp Experience

Esteban Ademovski wrote:Yeah, I’ve been harvesting fresh material for the posts and support pieces with coppicing in mind, and reusing the older junkpoles as pickets to fill in the panels wherever I can.

And yeah, you’re right — I must’ve harvested hundreds of trees by now. 😂 It’s definitely made me look at the woodland a little differently. I’ve gotten more mindful of what I’m cutting and what I’m leaving behind, trying to work with the regrowth and keep things healthy for the next round instead of just taking whatever I can get.

It looks like what's being harvested are the local conifers: Doug fir and Ponderosa pine, correct? Neither of these species are coppice friendly, because when you cut them down that's pretty much the end of the tree. So if you want to plan for a supply of pole wood, then I would suggest planting fast-growing coppice-ready varieties like willow, poplar, hazelnut, and similar trees. This could become an output of the willows that are fed by the willow feeders, for starters.

B.E.L. Post # 265

Today we started at the Abbey working on the fencing while Stephen was irrigating. I nearly knocked out a full panel, but just barely.

After lunch at Base Camp, I headed up to the Love Shack with Dan and Sam and added some woody bits to the berm. Then I laid out another layer of soil over it after they finished laying theirs.

After that, I cleared out and leveled some soil by the chicken road. I also did some irrigating, started filling the water turtle tanks for tomorrow, and added another layer of soil to the berm. To finish out the day, I did some chop-and-drop.