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Ioho the Yew - Winter Prompt 5 - Part 4

Ioho the Yew - Winter Prompt 5 - Part 4

One of 20 modules of 'Ogham Prompts'

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Crafting With Yew

To obtain Yew wood to craft with, surprisingly, Yew trees can be coppiced with a good new harvest of wood every 20 to 40 years

.Apparently this Yew tree has been coppiced for poles, maybe for archery bows, for over 2000 years …

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