permaculture

[venaurafarm <venaurafarm@bellsouth.net>]

On 10/18/2012 8:37 PM, Cory Brennan wrote:
> I hear you, I use cowpea as my canary to see if stuff has been sprayed. Even 
> when people say it hasn't, sometimes it has.
>
> That is a very good idea about live oak. I'll forward it!

I have a piece of live oak cut to size for a block plane dai. I can 
closeup photograph it and attach the pic to you if you want to see it 
for real. It is hard as a rock and is perfect for woodworking tools and 
handles. The only oak that is as hard or harder is Japanese white oak 
with Japanese red oak running a close second. These woods are used 
extensively in the crafting of traditional Japanese tools for Japanese 
joiners (woodworkers). Live oak grows all over the southern and mid- 
atlantic coastal region and in the deep south. It is an extremely 
valuable economic plant and should be sustainably harvested and stands 
of it should be carefully maintained and preserved. Actually it will 
grow in Chapel Hill but maybe they grow larger in warmer climates, don't 
know.

If you want more info on things you can make out of live oak let me 
know, especially woodworking applications. I have a large collection of 
information on this subject.

What about the seaweed; can you harvest any where you are?

LL