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[Cory Brennan <cory8570@yahoo.com>]

Thanks for all the nursery contacts, guys - most of my contacts are for 
tropical/semi-tropical so this is great!  We did end up getting more than 600 
trees from the forest service, closing out their bare root season at 45 cents 
per tree!  Lots of honey locust, plus nanking cherry, rugosa rose, buffalo 
berry, siberian pea (love this plant), hackberry, hawthorn, cottonwood, pine, 
and more. Many of these trees serve multiple functions, some are sacred to 
Lakota, and all grow well here. We got them all in the ground fast and many 
of them are already budding. The weather has cooperated beautifully, not too 
hot, and rain. So exciting to watch them bud! I hear you about them growing 
up fast. We scarfed some currants for really cheap too. And found out that 
the University sells bare root for 50 cents per tree in season.
Now I'm looking for some native edibles such as buffalo bean (ground plum 
milk vetch), wild sarsasparilla, biscuit root, cow parsnip, American 
licorice, and more.

--- On Fri, 6/24/11, Jason Gerhardt <jasongerhardt@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Jason Gerhardt <jasongerhardt@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [permaculture] Food forest on the rez
To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Friday, June 24, 2011, 11:09 AM

To add to Neil's great nursery list, I have to highly recommend St. Lawrence
Nursery.  They are in Potsdam, NY very near the Canadian border.  Of course
their climate is much wetter, but their trees are extremely hardy here at
high elevation in the Rockies and in the lowlands on the windy, dry plains.
 Their planting guide is a treasure trove of useful tips for cold clime
fruit tree raising.  They also grow their trees under organic conditions,
which I think is just as important as climate, since organic culture is like
a climate of it's own so to speak.

For the cold, dry prairie landscape as Neil said often the state forest
service will have a windbreak tree program where they sell extremely cheap
trees.  We bought 250 bareroot pea shrubs, buffaloberries, nanking cherries,
juniper, and golden currants from the Colorado State Forest Service this
year for $.75-$1.50 per tree depending on variety.

Lastly, I highly recommend starting with small bareroot trees.  Nothing will
take to a new challenging location like a young sapling size tree.  I've
seen very small trees newly planted catch up with newly planted large trees
many years older within a couple years.  Smaller stock also makes the job of
digging and irrigating much less laborious.

-- 
Jason Gerhardt
Permaculture Designer and Educator
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