Protect It From the Inside
The best time to protect wood from rot and bugs is right after you cut it — while it's still fresh.
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Evelyn's second rule: a sealant that just sits on the surface only protects the outside. The real trick is a treatment that soaks all the way into the wood fiber, protecting it from the inside as it dries — and fresh-cut wood soaks it up better than anything else.
About Sylvan Evelyn
Started out just asking one simple question: where does the wood actually come from. That question led him to coppicing — cutting a tree at the base so it regrows multiple new trunks instead of dying, a practice some English woodlands have run continuously for over a thousand years. He plants trees knowing he'll never live to see them harvested, and considers that the best investment there is, not a sacrifice.