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[Claude Genest <genest@together.net>]

Seed pods as well Heide ?

Also, Black Locust is one of the hottest burning firewoods and watch 
you don't plant them on your path too much as they are incredibly 
thorny !
On Friday, October 4, 2002, at 01:11 PM, Heide Hermary wrote:

> Black locust is poisonous to animals.  Why would you want to use it as 
> forage?
> Cheers, Heide
>
> BK wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > In reguards to black locusts, I'm not an avid silviculturalist, but I
> > believe they are one of the faster growing trees around. Had a small 
> > tree
> > (2" truck, 7 feet) about 2 years ago next to our house, it can now be 
> > seen
> > popping up above our roof. Also have tons of little seedlings popping 
> > up.
> > Its an n-fixer I believe. I've be playing with the idea of planting 
> > (on
> > barren land) a dense crop of them. Plan being: dense amount of small 
> > trees
> > to use as much sun as possible, thin about half of the trees out the 
> > next
> > year, use as forage. Thin them next year forage/stickwood. Such that 
> > you'd
> > continue to get a good amount out of the plot. Out course thats a bit 
> > of a
> > monocultural idea, so it'd be good to find understory crops for the 
> > more
> > mature system. Once they start flowering I bet you could get a good 
> > deal of
> > honey from the stand. I've set up a smal row of the little seedlings, 
> > I'm
> > hoping to try intertwining them as years progress to see how they'd 
> > work for
> > some form of biotecture.
> >
> > Also, in reguards to industry and stacking, theres a term around 
> > called
> > "industrial ecologies". Setting up a group of industries where one
> > industries waste is anothers input.
> >
> > Lastly, I'm not so sure I'd want to drink rainwater collected from 
> > rooves in
> > urban areas. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't there a bit of 
> > airborne
> > pollution around urban centers that would fall as rain?
> >
> > Cheers,
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