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Managed to find a copy of Sprout Lands, and reading the synopsis I see 'living hedge' mentioned. In season 2 of Clarkson's Farm (Jeremy Clarkson trying to run a farm) there's a match organized where folks make traditional living hedges, something I had never heard of but found fascinating. So thanks for this recommendation, sounds right up my alley.
There is an excellent video on YouTube on the hedge laying process. There is a old guy, I think in WWII assisted by a young person (young lady if I can assume gender) and it runs through the whole traditional technique. He smokes the entire time while working.
If you read about hedgerow loss through England and Europe, you can see what a negative effect that has had on ecological outcomes. Sprout Lands goes into how cycling trees for product, rather than clearfelling improved areas over time, animals and plants adapting to the changes over thousands of years. Fire is also a coppice technique and in Australia, indigenous people did it for so long, animals evolved with the changes.
I'll have a look for video now and edit it in if I find it.
Here it is. Throw it into your frontend of choice:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoprVhpOKIk
Please consider making a dedicated post for that (or any other similar) video if you find it, sounds like it deserves its own place and that way more people might find it.
c/farming? Where do you think it's relevant?
Did you want to make a trees community before the cannabis people take it?
Good question. I have no clue how much content/traffic we would get on such a topic. We could do c/Trees but maybe c/Arboriculture is more accurate?
Let me have a look at which communities are already there now, maybe something fits.
There's nature and gardening as you know but maybe too broad. Tree-related stuff isn't arboriculture because it should be general enough to bring in people who want to post photos of trees etc. Save arboriculture if Lemmy picks up enough to have arborists on board, like reddit does.
I'm sure someone on the larger instances will make c/marijuanaenthusiasts