Timber Frames and Conditions The World
Land is made up of different types of terrain largely by the situation of the soil, boulders and the timber. It could be as woodland, as mountains or mountainous, as desert or rolling flat-lands.
Yet land without trees, like the Nullabor (no timber) plains in Australia, is bare except for salt shrubbery, some local flora and animals. Furthermore, being waterless, these plains are very hot, unproductive and unwanted.
Land with lots of timber is fruitful, cool, humid, appealing and also substantially alive. Whenever we remove the trees from this type of territory what exactly are we all doing to the earth?
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Categories: Environment Tags: Australia, Biology, Deforestation, Environment, Forestry, Geography and ecology of the Everglades, Land use, Mangrove, Natural environment, Nature, Plant, Soil, Tree
Beating the Credit Crunch – Growing Your Own
Not only the credit crunch but the all time low exchange rate has made living in France a great deal more expensive and most of us are looking at our diminishing dollars and pounds and wondering how to make them go further.
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Categories: Garden Tags: allotment, bee, butterfly, chemicals, Chris Bradbury, Composting, France, Garden, gardening, herbs, United Kingdom, vegetable bed, vegetable garden