Thread: Black Locust for long bows

Cattle never eat the bark, I open the trees up to my bulls often and never had a problem, they do love the leaves. I was in India and in the foothills the local population got talked into growing pines for Turpentine in the days of British rule. The problem was the trees were only good for turpentine. The local I was with showed me trees that had at least three uses which he thought was a minimum. Feed for stock, timber for houses/ fences etc and erosion/ shade protection which was partly aesthetic value, and then beneficial to bees and birds.

I think part of our journey in life should be to create beautiful spaces, trees can do that while not affecting grazing value. Robina are great firewood, they are like ramming steel into the ground, bees love them and they are legumes now I need to find more uses for the wood.

I have just been with a friend to pick up 100k pines for carbon credit forestry. That one nursery is growing 15 million pines for this year. Thats a nightmare down the road, both through loss of family farms, loss of millions of head of livestock and trees that will be worthless down the road. We are being run by idiots.