Winning Willow Workers!

Level 3 Subsidiary Diploma Countryside Management students had a fun time coppicing Willow this week on the College estate. We are fortunate to have a small area of short rotation willow coppice left over from some research over a decade ago. The osier plantation is now managed on rotation, and after reading the management plan students identified the coupes to cut before commencing work in teams to cut stakes and binders. Some of this produce will help with hedgelaying later in the course and some will be used to construct incubation mounds for the local grass snake population. Picture to follow.......