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You can go as deep as you want, but the basic checklist could be (for case when you don't want to have productive farm land): - make sure there is some type of
by dejv 8y ago
You can go as deep as you want, but the basic checklist could be (for case when you don't want to have productive farm land):
- make sure there is some type of water on your property, shallow pond would be ok
- build different biotopes: leave some pasture area, plant patches of different bushes.
- plant some fruit trees and few solitair trees (depending on your geography it might be oak, linden or whatever. Ask at your garden center)
- build/buy and place different insect hotels in various parts of property
- when mowing the grass always leave some part (say 1/3) intact
- I am not familiar with situation in US, but in Europe you can find mixes of wild species seedings for given geography. You can use those to speed up biodiversity growth in the area.
- dejv 8y ago... oh and welcome to the club. For more inspiration you can listen to the Tim Ferriss podcast with Jason Fried (CEO of Basecamp)[1] somwhere at the end of the pocast he is talking his hobby of restoring prairie. [1]https://tim.blog/2018/07/23/jason-fried/ https://tim.blog/2018/07/23/jason-fried/
- CalRobert 8y agoThanks! As it turns out I went sale agreed about 30 minutes after my comment. It's in the Irish midlands and I'll be living there as well in a 210ish year old cottage, which will certainly be a shift. For dealing with the grass I had some idea that sheep might be friendlier than mowing, but sheep also tend to destroy everything in their path and stop seedlings. I was thinking I might try to grow food in this model - http://www.themarketgardener.com/book/ http://www.themarketgardener.com/book/ - but that would be on less than half the space. Clearly I have lots of research to do.
- Heliosmaster 8y agoMay I recommend "Practical Self Sufficiency"? A few years ago they even made a British TV-series "It's not easy (being green)": https://www.amazon.co.uk/Practical-Self-Sufficiency-Complete-Sustainable/dp/1405344415/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1539705229&sr=8-1&keywords=dick+strawbridge https://www.amazon.co.uk/Practical-Self-Sufficiency-Complete...
- mark-r 8y agoThe British TV-series that came to mind for me was "The Good Life" ("Good Neighbors" in the US). Wouldn't be much practical help however.
- detritus 8y agoGiven your location, this might be of some peripheral interest... "Restoring the ancient Caledonian Forest Alan Watson Featherstone TEDxFindhorn" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAGHUkby2Is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAGHUkby2Is
- ip26 8y agoYes, good catch, grazing from sheep & such are a big part of why the british isles have lost much of their forest.