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Thanks for this web chat with Mark. It was really informative. I've wanted to buy this book for a while, and I'm glad to see a direct link. good luck with the course. blessings.

I farm in California; my principal crop is olives. I have been experimenting with coppicing olives--cutting off the trees between waist-high and shoulder high. As olive trees age (20 years +) they go increasing into alternate bearing, with a heavy crop every second year and no fruit on the off years. My main motivation is to rejuvenate the trees to get away from alternate bearing, but also to keep the trees short for harvest. Wood from the initial cut goes to firewood, the second pruning yields a lot of straight, strong sticks. I coppice alternate trees in every fifth row( 10% of the total grove), which gives a ten year rotation. I'm only four years into this, so the effect on alternate bearing is not yet entirely clear, although I am getting two good years in a row. The vigor of the response was more that I was expecting--at 30 months after cutting the trees are already too tall again. I should try cutting them off at ground level, but I haven't had the courage to do that yet.

Hi, I'm new to all this. We raise goats. On our property we have trees that are intended for, among others, a supply of feed for goats. Is there any scenario where we can coppice/pollard the trees down to a size that will allow the goats to forage on them while at the same time allowing them (trees) to survive and regrow? Perhaps if we had some branches grow to a height out of their reach so they don't eat all the leaves everytime? Then we wait for the tree to recover before giving the goats access to them again. Thank you in advance!