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[Neil Bertrando <neilbertrando@gmail.com>]

check with Horizon Herbs seed company. for some of the native seed

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 9:50 PM, Cory Brennan <cory8570@yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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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