Later in March after the willow coppicing, a group of twenty students from Canterbury College spent the day planting willow cuttings along the dilapidated fence that once marked the limit of the osier bed. Coppiced offcuts were pushed into the ground, and cut down to just a few inches in the hope that they will take root.
This is a trial experiment. If the new shoots avoid being trampled or eaten by cattle, we’ll see how many cuttings “strike” successfully and decide how best to continue the work next winter.