I've heard of people eating ferns like that, but I only eat angiosperms myself. What do fiddleheads taste like?
“The data shows that land stewardship and protection fundamentally shift the carbon storage and emissions dynamics in the Amazon,” Chris Anderson, senior scientist at Planet, told Mongabay in an email interview. Anderson said the data hint at two scenarios that lie ahead for the planet: “one under land stewardship that promotes climate resilience versus one that doesn’t.”
The Amazon needs more people protecting the remaining forest and reforesting areas that have been degraded. Most environmental organisations just ask for money, but without people actually stewarding the land, it's highly questionable what effect any donations will have in the long term. There are people working on buying up land near a national park in order to expand the area under protection, but they need more people to help, even if only in the form of buying forested land and doing nothing with it or buying pasture land and letting it reforest itself.
“The data shows that land stewardship and protection fundamentally shift the carbon storage and emissions dynamics in the Amazon,” Chris Anderson, senior scientist at Planet, told Mongabay in an email interview. Anderson said the data hint at two scenarios that lie ahead for the planet: “one under land stewardship that promotes climate resilience versus one that doesn’t.”
The Amazon needs more people protecting the remaining forest and reforesting areas that have been degraded. Most environmental organisations just ask for money, but without people actually stewarding the land, it's highly questionable what effect any donations will have in the long term. There are people working on buying up land near a national park in order to expand the area under protection, but they need more people to help, even if only in the form of buying forested land and doing nothing with it or buying pasture land and letting it reforest itself.
You don't. Bamboo is not your friend. Bamboo is not anyone's friend.
Kill it before it can escape and consume everything that you hold dear. Fire helps. Dynamite is better.
Yeah, give saskatoons a try! You'd be surprised what's possible even in your climate.
Building a World Without Carbon
Just wait, next they'll be coming for our electrons. And THEN what will we do when we want to switch on the lights?
(The article is not as ridiculous as the headline.)
put out a sucker below the graft
We tell the trees to grow, and they do grow, but just to spite us. (That's called "malicious compliance.")
(non-native) purslane species
I don't think that it matters at this point. Native or not, it really is a useful plant, not only for the garden, but also for those sidewalk cracks where nothing else seems to grow.
I’d be worried about runoff.
You'd only need to prevent the water from spreading it around until it breaks down. If you compost it on a small raised platform with a roof over it, you shouldn't have much issue. For any minor spillage, you can plant something around the compost platform to absorb it. Once the compost breaks down, runoff would be a concern only due to the loss of hard-earned nutrients, which you could also reduce with vegetation and mulch.
I’d also like to do some cover crops and chop-and-drop this fall for mulch.
I've heard that buckwheat can work as a winter cover crop, though I've never actually seen it done. Do you have any Acer negundo popping up? That would probably be choppable and droppable, though more suitable as mulch for the fruit trees than the garden beds. If you have any Elaeagnus umbellata in your area, you could cut it down for woody mulch as well, but I don't recommend planting it. For mulching the garden beds, some large herbaceous plant probably makes more sense, but I don't know the cold-climate equivalent of banana, and the closest things to Tithonia diversifolia probably wouldn't grow back very well. I do NOT recommend grass.
As an honourable mention... Robinia pseudoacacia is another potential source of woody mulch, but it's probably the nuclear option. I don't know if there are any cow pastures or old copper mines near you, but if so, then this could probably reforest them if you let it grow up to produce seeds. The neighbour's lawn wouldn't stand a chance. If it isn't already growing in your area, exercise extreme caution. This plant is not a toy.
...I don't know how to tell you this.
I don't know much about the US, but many places don't have any of that zoning stuff. Ecuador seems to be famous for the lack of zoning regulations, but I imagine that any tropical rainforest country would probably be similar.
In the US, I remember hearing that some people in Arkansas were able to get away with starting up an intentional community and doing all sorts of permaculture things due to the lax zoning regulations. You might research how Arkansas does things.