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  1. On a related note, @MaQuest ...

    In #Thailand, a cheap bottle crate hack gives #tree #saplings a fighting chance

    Ruth Kamnitzer
    21 Nov 2025

    Excerpt: "Elliott and colleagues had seen examples of air pruning systems while touring nurseries in Australia, and previous studies have shown that air pruning can be beneficial for a number of tropical tree species. However, in Thailand, specialized air pruning equipment has to be imported and is prohibitively expensive.

    "So instead, the researchers cast around for a local solution. The answer was in plain sight.

    " 'If you go to a bar in the countryside, you know, a little restaurant, out the back there’ll be a rubbish pile full of disused bottle crates,' Elliott says. 'You can [also] go down to the #recycling shop and buy them really cheaply.'

    "Each bottle crate fits about 12 bags with saplings, and the structure creates a gap of 2 centimeters (nearly an inch) at the bottom. The researchers wondered if this gap would be enough to create air circulation for air pruning.

    "To test the idea, they raised saplings of five native tree species using three different methods: in crates placed directly on the ground; in crates placed on wire benches (for improved air flow); and the conventional method of a polyurethane bag on the ground. They then planted the saplings in a deforested site within #PraBangKhram #WildlifeSanctuary in southern Thailand."

    news.mongabay.com/2025/11/in-t

    #SolarPunkSunday #Reforesting #Rewilding #ReusingPlastic

  2. On a related note, @MaQuest ...

    In #Thailand, a cheap bottle crate hack gives #tree #saplings a fighting chance

    Ruth Kamnitzer
    21 Nov 2025

    Excerpt: "Elliott and colleagues had seen examples of air pruning systems while touring nurseries in Australia, and previous studies have shown that air pruning can be beneficial for a number of tropical tree species. However, in Thailand, specialized air pruning equipment has to be imported and is prohibitively expensive.

    "So instead, the researchers cast around for a local solution. The answer was in plain sight.

    " 'If you go to a bar in the countryside, you know, a little restaurant, out the back there’ll be a rubbish pile full of disused bottle crates,' Elliott says. 'You can [also] go down to the #recycling shop and buy them really cheaply.'

    "Each bottle crate fits about 12 bags with saplings, and the structure creates a gap of 2 centimeters (nearly an inch) at the bottom. The researchers wondered if this gap would be enough to create air circulation for air pruning.

    "To test the idea, they raised saplings of five native tree species using three different methods: in crates placed directly on the ground; in crates placed on wire benches (for improved air flow); and the conventional method of a polyurethane bag on the ground. They then planted the saplings in a deforested site within #PraBangKhram #WildlifeSanctuary in southern Thailand."

    news.mongabay.com/2025/11/in-t

    #SolarPunkSunday #Reforesting #Rewilding #ReusingPlastic

  3. On a related note, @MaQuest ...

    In #Thailand, a cheap bottle crate hack gives #tree #saplings a fighting chance

    Ruth Kamnitzer
    21 Nov 2025

    Excerpt: "Elliott and colleagues had seen examples of air pruning systems while touring nurseries in Australia, and previous studies have shown that air pruning can be beneficial for a number of tropical tree species. However, in Thailand, specialized air pruning equipment has to be imported and is prohibitively expensive.

    "So instead, the researchers cast around for a local solution. The answer was in plain sight.

    " 'If you go to a bar in the countryside, you know, a little restaurant, out the back there’ll be a rubbish pile full of disused bottle crates,' Elliott says. 'You can [also] go down to the #recycling shop and buy them really cheaply.'

    "Each bottle crate fits about 12 bags with saplings, and the structure creates a gap of 2 centimeters (nearly an inch) at the bottom. The researchers wondered if this gap would be enough to create air circulation for air pruning.

    "To test the idea, they raised saplings of five native tree species using three different methods: in crates placed directly on the ground; in crates placed on wire benches (for improved air flow); and the conventional method of a polyurethane bag on the ground. They then planted the saplings in a deforested site within #PraBangKhram #WildlifeSanctuary in southern Thailand."

    news.mongabay.com/2025/11/in-t

    #SolarPunkSunday #Reforesting #Rewilding #ReusingPlastic

  4. On a related note, @MaQuest ...

    In #Thailand, a cheap bottle crate hack gives #tree #saplings a fighting chance

    Ruth Kamnitzer
    21 Nov 2025

    Excerpt: "Elliott and colleagues had seen examples of air pruning systems while touring nurseries in Australia, and previous studies have shown that air pruning can be beneficial for a number of tropical tree species. However, in Thailand, specialized air pruning equipment has to be imported and is prohibitively expensive.

    "So instead, the researchers cast around for a local solution. The answer was in plain sight.

    " 'If you go to a bar in the countryside, you know, a little restaurant, out the back there’ll be a rubbish pile full of disused bottle crates,' Elliott says. 'You can [also] go down to the #recycling shop and buy them really cheaply.'

    "Each bottle crate fits about 12 bags with saplings, and the structure creates a gap of 2 centimeters (nearly an inch) at the bottom. The researchers wondered if this gap would be enough to create air circulation for air pruning.

    "To test the idea, they raised saplings of five native tree species using three different methods: in crates placed directly on the ground; in crates placed on wire benches (for improved air flow); and the conventional method of a polyurethane bag on the ground. They then planted the saplings in a deforested site within #PraBangKhram #WildlifeSanctuary in southern Thailand."

    news.mongabay.com/2025/11/in-t

    #SolarPunkSunday #Reforesting #Rewilding #ReusingPlastic

  5. On a related note, @MaQuest ...

    In #Thailand, a cheap bottle crate hack gives #tree #saplings a fighting chance

    Ruth Kamnitzer
    21 Nov 2025

    Excerpt: "Elliott and colleagues had seen examples of air pruning systems while touring nurseries in Australia, and previous studies have shown that air pruning can be beneficial for a number of tropical tree species. However, in Thailand, specialized air pruning equipment has to be imported and is prohibitively expensive.

    "So instead, the researchers cast around for a local solution. The answer was in plain sight.

    " 'If you go to a bar in the countryside, you know, a little restaurant, out the back there’ll be a rubbish pile full of disused bottle crates,' Elliott says. 'You can [also] go down to the #recycling shop and buy them really cheaply.'

    "Each bottle crate fits about 12 bags with saplings, and the structure creates a gap of 2 centimeters (nearly an inch) at the bottom. The researchers wondered if this gap would be enough to create air circulation for air pruning.

    "To test the idea, they raised saplings of five native tree species using three different methods: in crates placed directly on the ground; in crates placed on wire benches (for improved air flow); and the conventional method of a polyurethane bag on the ground. They then planted the saplings in a deforested site within #PraBangKhram #WildlifeSanctuary in southern Thailand."

    news.mongabay.com/2025/11/in-t

    #SolarPunkSunday #Reforesting #Rewilding #ReusingPlastic

  6. Wild Atlantic Rainforest
    "Irish biodiversity is threatened and in need of urgent attention. This is a unique opportunity to create healthy ecosystems, build climate resilience and repair our connection with nature."
    hometree.ie/wild-atlantic-rain

    #ReForesting #ReWilding #Pollinators #Ireland #TemperateRainForests #SolarPunkSunday #Rainforest #CelticRainforests #Rainforests #BioDiversty #WildLife

  7. Wild Atlantic Rainforest
    "Irish biodiversity is threatened and in need of urgent attention. This is a unique opportunity to create healthy ecosystems, build climate resilience and repair our connection with nature."
    hometree.ie/wild-atlantic-rain

    #ReForesting #ReWilding #Pollinators #Ireland #TemperateRainForests #SolarPunkSunday #Rainforest #CelticRainforests #Rainforests #BioDiversty #WildLife

  8. Wild Atlantic Rainforest
    "Irish biodiversity is threatened and in need of urgent attention. This is a unique opportunity to create healthy ecosystems, build climate resilience and repair our connection with nature."
    hometree.ie/wild-atlantic-rain

    #ReForesting #ReWilding #Pollinators #Ireland #TemperateRainForests #SolarPunkSunday #Rainforest #CelticRainforests #Rainforests #BioDiversty #WildLife

  9. Wild Atlantic Rainforest
    "Irish biodiversity is threatened and in need of urgent attention. This is a unique opportunity to create healthy ecosystems, build climate resilience and repair our connection with nature."
    hometree.ie/wild-atlantic-rain

    #ReForesting #ReWilding #Pollinators #Ireland #TemperateRainForests #SolarPunkSunday #Rainforest #CelticRainforests #Rainforests #BioDiversty #WildLife

  10. Wild Atlantic Rainforest
    "Irish biodiversity is threatened and in need of urgent attention. This is a unique opportunity to create healthy ecosystems, build climate resilience and repair our connection with nature."
    hometree.ie/wild-atlantic-rain

    #ReForesting #ReWilding #Pollinators #Ireland #TemperateRainForests #SolarPunkSunday #Rainforest #CelticRainforests #Rainforests #BioDiversty #WildLife

  11. Wild Atlantic Rainforest
    Irish biodiversity is threatened and in need of urgent attention. This is a unique opportunity to create healthy ecosystems, build climate resilience and repair our connection with nature.
    hometree.ie/wild-atlantic-rain
    #ReForesting #ReWilding #Pollinators #Ireland #TemperateRainForests #SolarPunkSunday #SolarPunk #BioDiversty

  12. Wild Atlantic Rainforest
    Irish biodiversity is threatened and in need of urgent attention. This is a unique opportunity to create healthy ecosystems, build climate resilience and repair our connection with nature.
    hometree.ie/wild-atlantic-rain
    #ReForesting #ReWilding #Pollinators #Ireland #TemperateRainForests #SolarPunkSunday #SolarPunk #BioDiversty

  13. It stopped raining about 2:30 this afternoon. Went to the plot. I 'guerilla planted' two oak saplings in an abandoned plot and put two hazel saplings in my coppice. The ground was so wet that planting holes filled with water as I dug them.... #oak #hazel #quercus #corylus #highwatertable #sheffield #reforesting

  14. It stopped raining about 2:30 this afternoon. Went to the plot. I 'guerilla planted' two oak saplings in an abandoned plot and put two hazel saplings in my coppice. The ground was so wet that planting holes filled with water as I dug them.... #oak #hazel #quercus #corylus #highwatertable #sheffield #reforesting

  15. It stopped raining about 2:30 this afternoon. Went to the plot. I 'guerilla planted' two oak saplings in an abandoned plot and put two hazel saplings in my coppice. The ground was so wet that planting holes filled with water as I dug them.... #oak #hazel #quercus #corylus #highwatertable #sheffield #reforesting

  16. It stopped raining about 2:30 this afternoon. Went to the plot. I 'guerilla planted' two oak saplings in an abandoned plot and put two hazel saplings in my coppice. The ground was so wet that planting holes filled with water as I dug them.... #oak #hazel #quercus #corylus #highwatertable #sheffield #reforesting

  17. Even with #war and it's real and lingering threat of violence and death, the people of #Gorongosa #mountain in #Mozambique, with direct training and engagement from and by the #government, have preservered and are succeeding in #reforesting the mountain while also benefiting from new #CashCrops—particularly #coffee.

    Everything, Everywhere, All at Once, literally, is our best hope of #ClimateChange mitigation.

    youtu.be/QZk3FThWI9Q?si=dmnOQb

  18. Even with #war and it's real and lingering threat of violence and death, the people of #Gorongosa #mountain in #Mozambique, with direct training and engagement from and by the #government, have preservered and are succeeding in #reforesting the mountain while also benefiting from new #CashCrops—particularly #coffee.

    Everything, Everywhere, All at Once, literally, is our best hope of #ClimateChange mitigation.

    youtu.be/QZk3FThWI9Q?si=dmnOQb

  19. @BardfromtheBookshop so, of these, the only things to germinate have been two out of twenty American walnuts. Next time, I am putting the potted up nuts in mouse-proof boxes. 0/20 for hazelnuts and chestnut germination is very disappointing #hazel #chestnut #reforesting #coppicing

  20. @BardfromtheBookshop so, of these, the only things to germinate have been two out of twenty American walnuts. Next time, I am putting the potted up nuts in mouse-proof boxes. 0/20 for hazelnuts and chestnut germination is very disappointing #hazel #chestnut #reforesting #coppicing

  21. @BardfromtheBookshop so, of these, the only things to germinate have been two out of twenty American walnuts. Next time, I am putting the potted up nuts in mouse-proof boxes. 0/20 for hazelnuts and chestnut germination is very disappointing #hazel #chestnut #reforesting #coppicing

  22. @BardfromtheBookshop so, of these, the only things to germinate have been two out of twenty American walnuts. Next time, I am putting the potted up nuts in mouse-proof boxes. 0/20 for hazelnuts and chestnut germination is very disappointing #hazel #chestnut #reforesting #coppicing

  23. Those in the Highlands of Scotland (visiting or resident) might like to help The Mountain Birch Project – Reforesting Scotland

    This project aims to make the most of the many eyes and feet out in the Scottish hills to help us locate trees from a forgotten habitat that we want to restore in our beautiful hills. The mountain …

    Video link youtu.be/Cpk1l0OXwec

    Article reforestingscotland.org/portfo

    #Rewilding #Highlands #Scotland #Reforesting #Reseeding #ReforestingScotland

  24. Those in the Highlands of Scotland (visiting or resident) might like to help The Mountain Birch Project – Reforesting Scotland

    This project aims to make the most of the many eyes and feet out in the Scottish hills to help us locate trees from a forgotten habitat that we want to restore in our beautiful hills. The mountain …

    Video link youtu.be/Cpk1l0OXwec

    Article reforestingscotland.org/portfo

    #Rewilding #Highlands #Scotland #Reforesting #Reseeding #ReforestingScotland