Man single-handedly plants forest in N China desert
“A man has planted over 200 hectares of trees in a north China desert over the past 30 years to halt encroaching sand from a nearby desert.”
Continue reading →Tag Archives: degraded land
Transition Forest Gardens Part 2: Alley Cropping
In my first blog post about Transition Forest Gardens I outlined some of my ideas about how to make a forest garden on degraded land. Today’s blog post covers some of my newest ideas for a transition forest garden.
Continue reading →Tamera Community in Portugal
Another excellent video by John D. Lui, the journalist who covered the restoration project on the Loess Plateau in China. “The example of Tamera shows how a decentralized and natural water retention landscape can heal a disturbed landscape and create … Continue reading →
Al Baydha – Another Greening the Desert Project
Arid Swales Update 20 Months After First Planting This is another important video that shows how to restore hopeless looking desert land into productive land. This is an ongoing series about restoring degraded land that includes inspiring stories such as … Continue reading →
‘Water Man of India’ Rajendra Singh
Stories like this give me so much hope that they’re starting to change my life. The ‘Water Man of India’ reminds me of the Miracle Water Village that we posted about last year and some other related ideas about Restoring … Continue reading →
Restoring Degraded Land
Urban areas have strict building codes that often make it difficult and costly to build with natural materials. Good rural land is expensive and hard to come by. So where can you live? Pinyon-juniper scrub land is very abundant, cheap … Continue reading →