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Originally Posted by Rev
back to char plants...
Eucalyptus
Pine
Acacia
-because they grow easy, we are already planting them (systems in place) and theres already lost of waste to add to the above ground carbon credits if charred or put into the grid as syngas
Sugar cane
Miscanthus
Bamboo
Vetiver
Imperata blady grass
all great to soak up urban stormwater and effluent and recaptures N and P pollutants very well
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Hi,
alley cropping is a good system. In Nigeria they found out that alley cropping with Leucaena leucocephala (coffee bush in Oz) with Cassia siamea (2:1) increased yields of cassava planted between the rows (spacing eight meters) by another thirty percent, compared to alley cropping with leucaena alone. (cgiar which now has been renamed to agroforestry).
Leucaena also makes good coppice and fodder (not for sheep) and grows really fast.
In Brazil they intercrop leucaena with elephant grass (Pennisetum purpureum) as pasture, getting ten animals (Zebu cattle) per hectare fattened to 300 kg per animal in 110 days, irrigation once a week, as researched by embrapa semi-árido in Petrolina.
There is plenty of scope for happy experimenters.
And for soaking up storm water see Yeomans and city forest. Find it at yeomans plow.
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