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  • From: Claude Genest <genest@together.net>
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  • Subject: [permaculture] Three Ways to Reforest the Desert ....
  • Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 22:01:04 -0400

I think Bill talks of a plan whereby he'd lay out miles of plastic
"snow-fence", line the length of it with discarded plastic shopping bags
( to hold/delay water), then fly over the length of it with a b-52 and
"bomb" it with pelleted seed...
> From: "Sharon Gordon" <gordonse@one.net>
> Reply-To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 15:35:53 -0400
> To: <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: [permaculture] Three Ways to Reforest the Desert WAS Re: Imitating
> fire + tree shredding equipmen
>
> : "Toby Hemenway" <hemenway@jeffnet.org> said
>
> vegetation), but when I
>> travel through the dry (human-made) chaparral of California, I dream of
>> moist forests in its place.
>
> I can think of three ways to do this though I don't know what would be the
> best plants to use in California.
>
> 1) Progressive permaculture strategy. Plant some drought resistance nurse
> plants including legumes if possible. Slowly add less drought resistant
> crops until you have the things you want. I would look at the transition
> areas from desert to meadow or forest to find plants or ideas for cousin
> plants to use.
>
> 2) Gaviotas method( a sort of natural seedball method). Plant one(or more)
> kind of drought resistant tree timed to catch the area rains to cover huge
> forest areas. Over time birds will fly to the forest and leave gifts of
> seeds and fertilizer from all over. Eventually the forest will contain
> hundreds of kinds of plants. A good school project would be to raise the
> seedling trees.
>
> 3) Progressive Seedball method. http://www.seedballs.com
> Put out seed balls using desert and semi-desert plants.
> As they catch on put out seed balls with prairie plants and later with
> woodland plants. School students have a blast making the seed balls.
>
> Sharon
> gordonse@one.net
>
>
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