Tree planting: Where can I do it and which type is best?
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Re: Tree planting: Where can I do it and which type is best?
#2There is also Trees for Life in Scotland:
You can volunteer for week long tree planting & conservation trips:
Re: Tree planting: Where can I do it and which type is best?
#3Given the amount of provisos, conditions, and regulators required to approve of planting, it sounds to me like it is better to beg forgiveness than ask permission.
Re: Tree planting: Where can I do it and which type is best?
#4My wife and I have a property with a good bit of forest. It's mostly fir trees and birch. Every now and then I wonder if there's some way to increase the co2 uptake of the forest, but the question appears surprisingly complicated, and so far my conclusion has been to just leave it be.
Has anyone looked into this?
Re: Tree planting: Where can I do it and which type is best?
#5Given the amount of provisos, conditions, and regulators required to approve of planting, it sounds to me like it is better to beg forgiveness than ask permission.
The rules presented in the article were just: "Don't mess anything up, and do it with permission by the land owner. If you plan to plant a ton, ask pros if that'll mess anything up."
Re: Tree planting: Where can I do it and which type is best?
#6Slightly tangentially related, for those of us who are into gardening and coding, there is a plant monitor made by Xiaomi called Xiaomi Flower Care that will monitor moisture, light, temperature, and soil fertility. It works over Bluetooth and can be purchased on Amazon for as low as $8 per probe but the vendors will often charge around $25. You see a lot of rebranded ones but they're all the same from Xiaomi. It works with their iOS (and presumably Android) app. Someone has released a SDK for it:
https://github.com/vrachieru/xiaomi-flower-care-api
My plan is to use that and build a Raspberry Pi to monitor my plants. And later on maybe control the watering system.
Anyways, it's a nice cheap plant monitoring option. It was really helpful when I was trying to figure out why my plants were turning yellow. People were mostly telling me that I was either over watering or under watering, etc. Then the probes all told me that my soil has no fertility left so I just added some organic 5-5-5 fertilizers and my plants are doing great again. The nerd in me love checking the data every day but would ideal build a Raspi server to sync and display some graphs some day (using a Prometheus endpoint perhaps?)
If anyone has good advice on how to control a set of water valves using Raspberry Pi, please let me know! I know about GPIO but I would like to have a bus of some sort so I can add more valves in the future if needed. Maybe a USB solenoid?
Re: Tree planting: Where can I do it and which type is best?
#7I did a rough spreadsheet some time back based on this 1998 EPA carbon sequestration worksheet [1] and found that an average person from a high carbon output country needs about 600-1000 trees to offset their carbon output.
There are about 3 trillion trees for a population of 7 billion people for an average of 428 trees per person, so that means you have to make up the delta of about 172 to 572 trees over the course of your lifetime to erase your carbon footprint (of course, young trees don't sequester as much carbon, so your footprint will still be positive for much of your lifetime - but as the trees get older, they sequester at a higher rate per year, which eventually gives you a negative footprint). This projection was based on the CO2 sequestration per year and the average survival rate documented in [1].
[1] https://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/Downloads/method-calculat...
Re: Tree planting: Where can I do it and which type is best?
#8I really want to start planting trees because this planet needs more trees, it's not a joke or some hippy movement, the consequences are real. I just feel like doing so in the UK is a bureaucratic nightmare. Plus buying trees to plant isn't cheap.
I might just start saving up for land and planting trees there if I can.
Re: Tree planting: Where can I do it and which type is best?
#9My wife and I have a property with a good bit of forest. It's mostly fir trees and birch. Every now and then I wonder if there's some way to increase the co2 uptake of the forest, but the question appears surprisingly complicated, and so far my conclusion has been to just leave it be. Has anyone looked into this?
Harvest it, and sell the wood to be converted into long-duration construction materials.
The land will produce successive crops.
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