#forestsforever

[adreamofspring-archive]

i thought i was finally getting over got but i went and watched that stupid doc and now i'm sobbing all over again i'm just so mad and disgusted and just wanted to let u know you're not alone rn

[feministdragon]

The Miyawaki Method: A Better Way to Build Forests

“It works like this: the soil of a future forest site is analyzed and then improved, using locally available sustainable amendments—for example, rice husks from a nearby mill. About 50 to 100 local plant species from the above four categories are selected and planted as seedlings in a random mix like you would find growing naturally in the wild. The seedlings are planted very densely—20,000 to 30,000 per hectares as opposed to 1,000 per hectare in commercial forestry. For a period of two to three years, the site is monitored, watered, and weeded, to give the nascent forest every chance to establish itself.

During this early period, the plantings compete with each other for space and access to light and water—a battle that encourages much faster growth. In conventional afforestation techniques, 1 meter of growth per year is considered the norm. In the Miyawaki method, trees grow about 10 times faster. Once stabilized, the forest is left to flourish, forevermore, on its own without further interference.

An engineer with a native zeal for quantifying systems, Sharma turned Miyawaki’s method into a set of assembly line instructions. Using an algorithm similar to Toyota’s assembly line that produces several different types of cars, each with its own requirements, he derived his own formula to make a multi-layered forest with plantings that also have different time, space, and other needs. Although his company offers consultation, training, and the actual building of forests, anyone can email Afforestt and receive access to Sharma’s graphs and instructions for planting a forest, start to finish. “Dr. Miyawaki invented this process, and whatever I understood of the methodology I wrote it as a standard operating procedure, so it could be replicated,” says Sharma.

From that manual, a would-be forester learns how to determine soil type using the “ribbon test;” how to collaborate with a local nursery to find truly native species; how to prepare the planting site; and how to arrange saplings, three to four per square meter, into a grid. (When planting his backyard forest, Sharma accidentally introduced two non-native species—neither he nor his source knew any better at the time—so he includes detailed instructions to help others avoid this mistake.) Now that Sharma has computerized the process, he’s back-working it to turn it into an analog, paper-based system that those without computer access can use.

A high level of diversity is paramount on Sharma’s list of essential goals. In projects Afforestt has undertaken in India, his company so far managed to use about 336 types of native trees out of 2800 that are known to have existed in the country. And the company has started its own nursery in Rajasthan to begin to add more species to their plantings.

Sharma is adamant that the impact of even very small forests on local communities is significant enough to matter. Research from Wageningen University in the Netherlands, which found increased fungi, bacteria, pollinators, and amphibians on two tiny planted forest sites in urban Zaanstad that were based on Sharma’s models,, lends some scientific credence to this claim.

Perhaps more importantly, Sharma says he’s witnessed people in resources-depleted communities change over the years, “from assuming land is bad and will stay that way, to now imagining forest.” He’s dedicated to making more of that verdant possibility come true, and to bringing back, he says, “everything [we can] that has been lost to agriculture, monoculture, cities, lawns. Until those small patches have been restored, the work doesn’t stop.”

https://daily.jstor.org/the-miyawaki-method-a-better-way-to-build-forests/

https://www.afforestt.com/projects

[swathinkrishna-blog]

goodluck #kodaidiaries #fog #forestsforever #greenworld #grasshopper #goodvibesonly (at Pine Forest)

[oogruk-the-destroyer-blog]

#capitalismmustdie #rewild #forestsforever #massextinction the dust bowl. Only super small scale vegan farming can protect soil and wild places. Take responsibility for yourselves and stop consuming the planet to our death!

[oogruk-the-destroyer-blog]

#massextinction #capitalismmustdie #forestsforever #rewild As the world burns we who can see the approaching extinction have the weight of the world on our shoulders as the mindless masses consume their way to all of our demise.

[oogruk-the-destroyer-blog]

#forestsforever #endanimalhusbandryinsteadofitendingalllife #capitalismmustdie #massextinction Some reputable scientists have give us 15 to 40 years until extinction due to the exponential rise in methane as the planet warms up. We also only have 30 years of farmable soil left. Even if they are wrong we should at least be doing something to improve our conditions. I am sick of how fucking ignorant, selfish and greedy humans are!

[oogruk-the-destroyer-blog]

#rewild #massextinction #capitalismmustdie #endanimalhusbandryinsteadofitendingalllife #forestsforever Plant trees or else.......