• baldingpudenda@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I always thought we should plant hybrid poplar or maybe empress trees. Then coppice and turn the wood to biochar.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coppicing

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biochar

    You can do it multiple times and take cuttings to grow new trees. I dont know how much land a pig farm needs, but if it’s like chicken factories, they basically live in cramped spaces. So you can dump the biochar into the pig shit. Let it soak up the nutrients and then fertilize the stumps.

    The biochar is now stable carbon that will be sequestered in the ground for hundreds of years

    • huskypenguin@sh.itjust.works
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      11 months ago

      I have been planting hybrid poplars and willows for three years. I’m bad at it, and lazy. So I basically just walk out to the semi-swamp behind my house and push sticks in the ground. I now have about 15 trees, 8ft to 26ft, and I’m slowly turning my backyard into a shady alcove.

      Unfortunately the hybrid poplar only lives for 30 years, but you can plant longer living trees (maples, pines, oaks) while the initial batch is growing. Then bury the wood of the poplars to sequester the carbon.