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Direct Seeding: Get Your Satchel and Plant a Forest
Everyone wants to create a forest. It’s a natural desire. How hard can it be? You start with a blank canvas and add paint in the form of seeds or trees. Like the book “The Man Who Planted Trees” by … Continue reading
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Two Story Agriculture
Ground Floor and Going Up I first found the concept of Two Story Agriculture in the best selling book Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture by J. Russell Smith. He was an economic geographer for Columbia University and had written extensively … Continue reading
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Tagged ecological enrichment, ecology, garden, hickory, lilac, nature, planting trees, plants, tree crops
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Canopy Closure: A Hickory Tree Makes That Happen
The first trees I planted outside of my nursery into the pasture were hickories. It was in the early 80’s that I acquired the property and began my nursery. The snap shot above tells the story. At that time, people … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, agroforestry, Carya, crop diversity, ecological enrichment, ecology, gardening, hican, hickory, hickory nuts, hickory trees, nature, nut oil, nuts, seeds
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