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Sprout Lands

Hardcover • 2019 • 1. edition

Sprout Lands

By William Bryant Logan

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About the book

Farmers once knew how to make a living fence 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 beeches to make charcoal to fuel ironworks. Shipwrights shaped oaks to make hulls. In order to prosper communities cut their trees so they would sprout again. Pruning the trees didn't destroy them. Rather, it created healthy, sustainable and diverse...Show more

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ISBN

9780393609417

Publisher

WW Norton & Co

Published year

2019

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Edition

1

Original title

Sprout Lands

Format

Hardcover

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