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If you have a Twitter account, follow @BuildSoil . This is a young landscape ecologist who is actively organizing his thousands of followers to plant 1 million chestnut trees this year – EDIBLE chestnuts, not the inedible kind — to revitalize soil, establish carbon sink with the trees, and feed people with the chestnuts (usually ground into flour or roasted for snacks). His posts are amazingly positive and full of plans for real DIY actions that will help the climate and grow food.
His other project is urging people to grow azolla (a water plant that is edible by humans but is mostly used as poultry feed) in buckets or ponds in their yards. Besides being livestock feed, azolla is fast-growing and also neutralizes carbon, improves air and water quality, suppresses mosquitoes, etc.
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Thanks Suzanne for starting this thread. We all have bodies to nurture and we live on one. The connection heals – opens one to more.
Spirit beings, mind and body health.
Abundance – oh my…. one kale plant going to seed will feed the neighbourhood for a year. Get everyone to let a kale plant go to seed and green nutrition for the community is covered. The abundance from seed is unparalleled – making soil simply by laying cardboard on top of the lawn is a great beginning….
Shayne Laughter – love the idea of planting edible trees. Myself, in the Pacific Northwest – I plant Walnut and Hazelnuts (for nuts). A person can take a cutting from someones existing Hazelnut (ask first lol) and plant away. Oak trees for acorns are easy here too.
Azolla works as a great mulch as well….
I allow all “weeds” and use them to mulch – weeds indicate what the soil situation is.Squash plants can be seeded in my area now. They will grow and grow – then you harvest and put in a cool dark space – food for winter (soups)…..
I do have to control myself on this subject…
She is the most lovely garden.
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