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The Woodchip Handbook : A Complete Guide for Farmers, Gardeners and Landscapers - Ben Raskin

The Woodchip Handbook

A Complete Guide for Farmers, Gardeners and Landscapers

By: Ben Raskin

eBook | 4 November 2021

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Ben Raskin's wide-ranging work in varied locations makes The Woodchip Handbook a really useful overview of the possibilities afforded by woodchip. Charles Dowding, author of Charles Dowding's No Dig Gardening

The first and only complete guide to sourcing and using woodchip - an abundant, inexpensive and ecologically sustainable material - for savvy growers and landscapers at any scale, from farm to garden to greenhouse.

The Woodchip Handbook is the essential guide to the many uses of woodchip both in regenerative agriculture and horticulture. Author Ben Raskin, Head of Horticulture and Agroforestry at the Soil Association, draws on his extensive practical experience using woodchip, provides the latest research from around the world and presents inspiring case studies from innovative farmers.

The book explores and unlocks the tremendous potential of woodchip to enhance soil health and plant growth:

  • As a natural mulch for weed suppression, temperature buffering and water conservation

  • As a growing medium for propagating plants

  • As a decomposing source of warmth for hotbeds in the greenhouse or hoop house

  • As a carbon-rich compost ingredient that supports beneficial fungi and microorganisms

  • As a powerful soil health booster when applied as small-sized ramial chipped wood

  • As an ideal substrate for growing many kinds of edible or medicinal mushrooms

  • As a sustainable, versatile and durable material for foot paths and ornamental landscaping

Some of these techniques, like mulching - or the renewable harvest potential from coppicing and pollarding trees - have been around forever. Yet there is always new science to be discovered, such as the role that salicylic acid from willow woodchip can play in preventing tree diseases or promoting livestock health when used as a bedding material.

Whether you are a commercial grower or farmer, a permaculture practitioner or a serious home gardener producing your own fruit and vegetables, The Woodchip Handbook will show you how to get the most out of this readily available and renewable material.

I did not know the world needed a whole book on woodchip, but from the first chapter I could not put this book down. Alys Fowler, author of The Edible Garden and The Thrifty Gardener

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