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I can see that being critical in Brazil, near the rainforests, but does this strategy work in the great plains?

• oddsockmachine 6y ago
  Might not count as the great plains, but Mark Sheppard's New Forest Farm in Wisconsin is a good demonstration of a similar approach in a different context. https://newforestfarm.us/about/ https://newforestfarm.us/about/
  • ethbro 6y ago
    Not to belittle the difficulty, but as someone who just drove from WY to WI over the last couple days... east of the Mississippi is drastically wetter than western MN+.
    • youngtaff 6y ago
      Yeh, there's a chicken and egg situation… Having trees increases rainfall but need to grow the trees with little rainfall first!
      • ethbro 6y ago
        "The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows - a wall against the wind."
• alisson 6y ago
  Yes, the method applies anywhere in the planet. But for that you need to deeply understand the plants available for you, I mean those that are able to grow there in the beginning, native or not, here we use lots of african grasses and eucalyptus to start. There are a few people replicating this all over the world in very different environments.