Hello fellow steemians, here @semillabesada is REFORESTATION the main goal!
The conventional farming on our mountain-slope is transforming the typical diverse landscape into a mono-culture of stones.
While sustainable farming should be the applicable law. The overall guidelines are often neglected, diverse landscapes aren’t reflecting any of the facts that are defined by law implemented by the Natural Parc of the Sierra Nevada SPAIN.
@semillabesada the soil is nourished and not tilled so that biodiversity can flourish. In the six years that we are working the farm the bird population increased thanks to planting trees and bringing water to the farm by a 7 km long and more than 400 year old Moorish waterchannel called asequia.
“Trees are, for the earth the ultimate translators and moderators of incoming energy. At the crown of the forest and within its canopy the vast energy of sunlight, wind, precipitation are being modified for life and growth. Trees not only build but conserve the soils, shielding them from the impact of raindrops and the desiccation of wind and sun.” (bill molisson)
We want to provide knowledge to safeguard geo- and biodiversity values of the mountain. Hence there is need to strengthen its preservation and conservation; further knowledge and research is required in these areas. In the picture above you have an impression of what the garden now looks like, in the center you can see a chembuster! Step by step we help suffering land by depletion and erosion to re-green ! Mankind can do miracles if we want to! Upvote to help our forest grow faster and bigger!
Yes! We don't have too much carbon we just have a big lack of trees on this planet!!
What you are doing looks great.
Can you do any direct seeding up on the slopes?
Like seedballing
Or planting cuttings of spineless Opuntia and poplar.
There is also a method called FMNR that is most useful for regenerating landscapes in that condition
i look up fmnr never heard of it
all info is welcome!
FMNR - im going to post about it just collating sone resources and do setup to capture it on Video.
great looking forward to it!!!
tried seedballin without success...
I wish you good luck. I wish i knew more about your weeds and could spend a few days looking at abandoned places.
What grows there shows the way the ecology works.
Here its thorny Zizyphus, Acacia, Lantana, Jatropha, Calotropis, Myoporum and others.
If these reclaim the site first then its easier to chop and drop them using them to nurse back original forests.
Have you tried Tagasaste?
It can be direct drilled after scarification. It suits the meditteranean area and rocky hills very well.
You can also raise in beds and transplant the seedlings direct into location at the start of the rainy season.
I hope you find a method to reforest like this above you, as the benefits are great for soil, water and wildlife
we have the honeylocust ( african acacia), locally there is the spanish broom (spartium junceum), lavandin & eleagnus is doing very well! As herb is absynth growing as mad. Very good to chop & drop. Is tagaste frost resistent? We have ziziphus growing. Lantana looks very beautiful need to do some research on that. Jathropa seems also a very interesting plant, again if it's frost-resistant. Same for calotropis and myoporum. We also grow agnus castus & cotinus coggyria. I will do my best to write about it and bring some photos! thank you for your reply, I love to learn more!
Tagasaste in Indeed frost resistant.
And Elaeagnus is a great choice as is the Cytisus.
I will prepare some more suggestions based on systems ive seen in Southern Australian permaculture systems with the same climate
Leucaena and Jatropha are not really frost hardy.
thanks for the info, I will keep it in mind for future planting!
Hi there
Thanks for the Additional information.
I think i should devote a post to you for hardy meditteranean area pioneers
Can you tell me how cold is your minimum tempetature in degrees celsius?
How many frosts you get per year on average.
Does it snow?
Then i can help
Hola, yes we get some snow every year, but because we are south-faced it does not last longer than a few days ! We had once minus -9°Celsius. Normally it does not get so cold -3°C is average, don't really know how many days a year,... It varies every year, ...
-9c is chilly!
Europe has very few nitrogen fixing native trees, the Ice ages wiped them out.
But there are species in Asia and the Americas, even Alpine Australia that can be used.
Tagasaste will cope down to -6c, -3c is ok while young.
I was in Kyoto , Japan and they have bush clover. Lespedeza bicolor var japonica. Its a very good shrub legume and very beautiful
I also have used Albizia julibrissin , the Persian silk tree as a support legume.
Black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) is good but weedy. I probably dont reccomend it.
Acacia alpina and Acacia phlebophylla from the Australian alps are cold hardy to snowfall. If you can find seed.
These are hardy plants that can grow in the mountains on rocky slopes
Exactly what the world needs - thank you!