Living Fences: How-To, Advantages and Tips
Sustainable living fences can hold animals, protect soil, provide livestock fodder, offer food or compost, and will last generations.
A living fence is a permanent hedge tight enough and tough enough to serve almost any of the functions of a manufactured fence, but it offers agricultural and biological services a manufactured fence cannot. For instance, it provides “edge habitat” that supports ecological diversity. As more species (insects, spiders, toads, snakes, birds and mammals) find food and refuge in this habitat, natural balances emerge, yielding, for example, a reduction of rodents and crop-damaging insect populations.
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Sustainable living fences can hold animals, protect soil, provide livestock fodder, offer food or compost, and will last generations.
A living fence is a permanent hedge tight enough and tough enough to serve almost any of the functions of a manufactured fence, but it offers agricultural and biological services a manufactured fence cannot. For instance, it provides “edge habitat” that supports ecological diversity. As more species (insects, spiders, toads, snakes, birds and mammals) find food and refuge in this habitat, natural balances emerge, yielding, for example, a reduction of rodents and crop-damaging insect populations.
Read more: http://goo.gl/K4TK7
Best of Mother Earth News: Build It Yourself: http://amzn.to/150XZmz
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