1189: Sprout Lands: 3of4: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees Kindle Edition by William Bryant Logan (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
Photo: Winter trees, rural New work State. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Parler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Sprout Lands: 3of4: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees Kindle Edition by William Bryant Logan (https://www.amazon.com/William-Bryant-Logan/e/B001IXRP2Y/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1) (Author) Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Sprout-Lands-Tending-Endless-Trees/dp/B07RGR4QKK/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=sproutland&qid=1564441773&s=audible&sr=1-1 Once, farmers knew how to make a living hedge and fed their flocks on tree-branch hay. 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. Townspeople cut their beeches to make charcoal to fuel ironworks. Shipwrights shaped oaks to make hulls. No place could prosper without its inhabitants knowing how to cut their trees so they would sprout again.