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by quixoticelixer- 6y ago
Oh jesus christ fuck no
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by quixoticelixer- 6y ago
It's not really a fair comparison since it doesn't need anything to grow on to and growing straight up isn't that hard.
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by quixoticelixer- 6y ago
There are a few reasons why honey is antimicrobial and one of them is it's high osmotic pressure. They also have some hydrogen perexide activity and some honeys such as mānuka have things like methylglyoxal.
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by quixoticelixer- 6y ago
Not only was there not much market from it it is also quite difficult to extract.
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by quixoticelixer- 6y ago
Theft is certainly a problem with Mānuka hives
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by quixoticelixer- 6y ago
Buckwheat is grown as a grain crop in some parts of the US and Canada.
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by quixoticelixer- 6y ago
Yeah there are a lot of honeys that are nice that you don't see that often.
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by quixoticelixer- 6y ago
They are wind pollinated not bee pollinated. Maybe in theory bees could collect some pollen but it would be a stretch to get THC into honey.
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by quixoticelixer- 6y ago
Most commercial grade mānuka honey is more than pure enough to get medicinal benefits. That is what UMF is.
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by quixoticelixer- 6y ago
Manuka honey is certainly not cheap
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by quixoticelixer- 6y ago
Getting stolen is the only thing I could think of, temperature and hive humidity aren't usually problems, the beekeeper doesn't control those things, the bees do. Maybe there are a few other things it could be used for but i'
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by quixoticelixer- 6y ago
With soils with a pH of 2.9 and almost no available P?
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by quixoticelixer- 6y ago
At about that time, although at 5000 stems/ha that's a lot of trees that big.
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by quixoticelixer- 6y ago
What species of pine are they? Pines tend to grow fast but are short lived but I would only remove them if they are >40cm dbh. For the rewood the only thing you could do would be to thin and remove competition if there are trees to close
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by quixoticelixer- 6y ago
With dense planting of that sort you will thin (and get some natural thinning) so that your final crop will be much lower, usually 300-1000 stems/ha compared to 5000+.
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by quixoticelixer- 6y ago
Storms do not easily flatten small trees, small trees are usually the most resistant to wind.
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by quixoticelixer- 6y ago
If anything pine plantations can feel more haunted with their unnatural uniformity and changes in how far you can see.
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by quixoticelixer- 6y ago
Very acidic soils are not ideal for tree growth, yes it does mean that other species can't growth there but that is not the same thing as being ideal for tree growth.
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by quixoticelixer- 6y ago
That's a gross over generalisation. There are many forests that will naturally regrow into healthy forests in 100 years with reasonably high stocking and large trees, I was in one a few weeks ago.
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by quixoticelixer- 6y ago
New Zealand has planted ~250 million trees in the past 2 years. still a far way of 1 trillion but more than you might think. https://www.teururakau.govt.nz/funding-and-programmes/forest...
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by quixoticelixer- 6y ago
Yes but plants have built in solar panels, you need to have solar energy that is much more efficient than plants and also very, very cheap
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by quixoticelixer- 6y ago
Except that's not quite true, many forest soils are actually quite poor and the trees that grow there would grow much better in other, different soils. e.g many forest soils are much more acidic than ideal for tree growth.
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by quixoticelixer- 6y ago
Except that lots of forests have terrible soil with low pH , low carbon, very low nutrient levels and are actually quite difficult for things to grow in.
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by quixoticelixer- 6y ago
No, but young forests grow into old forests and while they don't hold as much CO2 they sequester it much much faster. (assuming of course that there is good regeneration after fires.)
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by quixoticelixer- 6y ago
What do you mean by healthy soil?
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by quixoticelixer- 6y ago
Regarding California and Australia they might not be as big CO2 emitters as you might expect as long as the forest grows back well after fires.
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by quixoticelixer- 6y ago
I guess it depends on your definition of permaculture, I was thinking more like an integrated orchard system. You are quite right about your 'alternative grazing methods', they are productive and much much better for the soil than
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by quixoticelixer- 6y ago
Doing it properly you should get about 80%, however a lot of the time it's not done properly.
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by quixoticelixer- 6y ago
Many more trees than that have been planted, we have planted several hundred million (and possibly much more) in New Zealand alone since that period
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by quixoticelixer- 6y ago
Unfortunately permaculture usually isn't that productive with a few exeptions

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