We can think of at least 180 great forest garden & perennial crops for cold climate Sweden. Want to hear about them? Over the course of the next year we will profile 5 a week on the blog. Perennial plants and crops offer a low energy, oil & resource input based foundation for future-proof agricultures. By default if an agriculture is to be called regenerative the bottom line is that it must be soil building, not soil depleting. Relentless deep tillage & poor soil husbandry (wifery?!) contributes to the majority of the 24 billion tons of topsoil lost every year on planet water. We are going to be focused on holistic polyculture grazing and perennial production at ridgedale over most of the site as this represents the most effective way to restore our degraded landscape, produce high value produce and ensure the future resource base we are managing holistically for in our decision making. Genus Celtis Species occidentalis Common Name hackberry Form large tree Habit clumping Origin North America Light sun Moisture dry to mesic Edible fruit Celtis occidentalis is a deciduous Tree growing to 20 m (65ft) by 20 m (65ft) at a fast rate. The common hackberry is native to North America from southern Ontario and Quebec, through parts of New England, south to North Carolina-(Appalachia), west to northern Oklahoma, and north to South Dakota. Fruit can be eaten raw. Very sweet and pleasant tasting, they can be eaten out of hand or can be used for making jellies, preserves, etc. There is very little flesh surrounding a large seed and it is therefore a very fiddly crop. The fruit is dark orange to purple- or blue-black when fully ripe, usually about 7-11mm in diameter, though occasionally up to 20mm. The flesh is dry and mealy but with a pleasant sweet taste. Apparently the N. American Indians ate them with parched corn. An extract obtained from the wood has been used in the treatment of jaundice. A decoction of the bark has been used in the treatment of sore throats. Wood is rather soft, weak, coarse-grained & heavy. It is sometimes used commercially for cheap furniture, veneer, fencing fuel, etc. OUR FRIENDS AT PFAF HAVE AN AMAZING DATABASE OF SPECIES (UK BASED);We're giving away a free copy of Edible Forest Gardens 2 this week- find us on Facebook, share the link and comment and ridgedale Yohanna will pick out a lucky winner at the end of the week.
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