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We should make a goal of planting a tree for every person in our family. On your land if you have it, or donating somewhere that will plant the trees. If Ethiopia can do it, we sure can.

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Hathacat 9 July 14
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I found it. 😊

Zoohome Level 8 July 14, 2019
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I have planted more than my family could handle. Lol
I guess I'm doing for the extended family.

There is a nice story about an Indian guy that has planted a forest somewhere in India (I think). I'll search for that article.

Zoohome Level 8 July 14, 2019

I have read that article! Amazing!

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Ethiopia's challenges seem specific to them. Wood as a prime fuel resource of poor people is a problem. Good for them for this initiative.

In the U.S., it seems to me the timber industry practice of clearcutting has devastated local ecosystems, and simply replanting saplings after clearcutting does little to restore the diversity of life in that ecosystem. Policies that severely restrict clearcutting are important and have been fought for. I honestly don't know how successfully so far.
But another problem in the U.S. is urban sprawl. Very lax zoning restrictions and the cultural attitude that ownership of land means you are entitled to do whatever you feel like with "your" land have added up to mean that a lot of vegetation gets cleared unnecessarily. We can each only "do what we can" to offset that vegetation loss. Maybe talking about it and trying to be a positive example to others will help eventually change our cultural mindset about environmental stewardship. I love to see urban homesteading, because that shows us people can manage their properties for sustainability rather than just for appearance....i.e. manicured lawns, lots of pesticides, etc. If we are going to sprawl into the countryside with our construction, the least we can do is try to leave ways for wildlife to still live around us.

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My first knee-jerk reaction to this suggestion was: Plant trees?!? My 1/4 acre property is already largely shaded by some 9 or 10 big oaks, pine, maple, crape myrtle and catalpa. How am I supposed to plant trees?

Then I realized I have already planted a Satsuma citrus tree and two sweet olive "trees." That is one more than my tiny 2 person household. So Yay!

Aside from trees, pollenators need all the help they can get. So planting anything green that blooms occasionally (that is most plants) is good.

I moved a line of crepe myrtles . They easily seed themselves , so I made a point of saving each new one that grew where I wanted the line to move to , then as they began to mature , cut down the original trees . I took several years , and I now have more trees than were in the original line . In addition , I've planted another four crepe myrtles around my home .

@Cast1es I hear you. My one crape myrtle sends up little sprigs in the lawn all the time. A main ingredient for reshaping our landscape responsibly is patience. I have been trying to listen to my dappled shade backyard meadow for ideas on how to landscape more naturally. So I noticed a lot of wild dewberry (a type of trailing blackberry) vines popping up wherever they can. My back yard is surrounded by chain link fence. I have now started weaving those vines through the fence whenever I find ones within several feet of it. I am going to give my experiment a couple years to see if I get many berries. All blackberry relatives fruit on 2nd year vines (floracanes), so we'll see. For the sake of bugs and the critters that eat the bugs, I like to encourage as much native plants as possible.

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Nice idea.

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Great thought....and I belong to folk who make it easy.

They send me greeting cards that say nice messages...then inside they say "A tree has been planted in your name by ____"....and they send you trees for cheap.....check them out!

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Robecology Level 9 July 14, 2019

Yes, you can score from the Arbor day people!

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I have 10.5 acres - about 7 is forest & will remain that way. So far I have planted 5 Leyland Cypress, 1 ornamental plum & 2 peach trees. Covers me, my dad & my brother (immediate family).

Heidi68 Level 8 July 14, 2019

I forgot the 2 Crepe Myrtle at the beginning of my driveway.

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I have planted a few on our land, but every year I collect acorns from our oak trees and scatter them beside roads, in hedgerows and among quick growing trees - hope those around in 200 years see them thriving

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I've planted 5 trees on my property since we bought in 2014. 2 Pear, 2 Crape myrtles and a Spruce.

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Eighty or more of them and only one of me so far. What a lot of people never understand is how fast trees can grow, there is a myth that trees take a long time, it really does not take a whole lifetime. Often fast growing types will give you a mature plant in ten years, so you will still see good growth even if you retired. While some of the ones I planted as a teenager are now looking like mature established forest, in just a half century.

Fernapple Level 9 July 14, 2019
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I've planted 3 palms, an olive tree, inga tree, and a limequat tree in the last year so I've got some of you covered 🙂

Lucy_Fehr Level 8 July 14, 2019

Thank you! I have planted fruit trees, but I think I will try for at least one a year somewhere. I have no tree planting land here, but maybe the local park would like something pretty. We need as many trees as there are people, so it's a start!

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