Mulching for healthy tree seedlings

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Farming with pollards - A productive way of pruning

Why pollard trees?

Pollarding trees optimises renewable biomass production and facilitates local production of firewood, ramial chipped wood (RCW), lumber and fodder. Harvest occurs over decades, depending on the chosen frequency of pruning and utilization. Many tree varieties can be pollarded to provide a range of products. Pollarded trees have an increased lifespan. As their growth is limited, they better resist wind and drought, and this may be of particular benefit in global warming conditions. Old pollards use compartmentation to ensure living cells are protected from diseases and dead cells in the middle of the trunk. The tree trunks, and even the roots, are also great biodiversity habitats for flora and fauna.

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Dehesa of Casablanca, Oliva de Plasencia, Cáceres, Spain

The former Sylva-Saltus-Ager land use system of the Romans, by which the forest, the pasture and the crop field were established in separate areas, have been integrated today into the so-called Dehesa land use system of southwestern Spain.

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Successful tree establishment depends on minimising competition from other vegetation for water and nutrients. Mulching is one of the most beneficial practices a farmer can use to establish healthy tree plants.

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Collection of reindeer

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Xeromero valonia oak forest/silvopastoral system (West Greece)

Authochtonous goat breed (Serpentina) grazing under Holm oak (Quercus rotundifolia)

Traditional meadow in Joensuu, Finland

Switzerland

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Mulching for healthy tree seedlings