by Darren
26. February 2011 11:29
We've been consulting with ERCA (Essex Region Conservation Authority) about getting some trees planted on our property. They came up with a 2 acre proposal that seems too good to be true.
They'll come in and use their tree-planting robot (ok – tractor) to plant 1075 trees in two areas – the first is a double line of trees along the farm's property line.
The farm is North of our property and the wind and snow that blows in is terrible – the cedars and white spruce trees will form a nice snow fence. That'll be 450 trees in total.
The second area they'll plant is between the field where we want to plant grapes and the campground area. They'll plant 625 hardwood trees in that area. That will effectively screen out the school from this side of the wood lot. They'll plant them in pretty mechanical lines, but we're free to move them around a little if we wish.
We have to make a three year commitment to care for the trees (replace dead ones, mow and plant clover between them) and they pick up about 90% of the cost. Very cool. We'll have over 1000 new trees on our land and be making a whole lot of very nice Oxygen for you to enjoy while you're here.
One of the things that I want to do is to harvest two or three of the White Spruce (my favourite Christmas tree) trees every year and replace it with a little bitty one. That way I can have a fresh Christmas Tree every year for about $5 (the cost of the bitty one). I figure it'll be 7 to 10 years before the first one, but after that every year I get a bigger and bigger tree!
With all of the new beauty and all of the new Oxygen that we're putting in here I know a stroll through the property is Bound to Please!
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