Trees + Desert = Green
Replicate Geoff Lawton’s permaculture success
Planting a species that needs water in an environment defined by lack of water seems like the most obvious oxymoron.
But desert greening reclaims deserts by converting them into areas that thrive with agriculture can impact local quality of life, global health, food availability, and energy transformation.
Check out?Geoff Lawton’s permaculture experiment?— and his enormous success — on ten acres in the Dead Sea Valley.
Geoff’s team created swales to?catch every drop of rainwater and heavily mulched alongside them. When the team planted non-fruit trees, everyone laughed at them. But when, a short time later,?mushrooms?that need moisture began to appear in the swales, everyone was astounded.
“We could re-green the Middle East.?We could re-green any desert, and de-salt it at the same time.” — Geoff Lawton