Afternoon All,
Just found this fascinating article in the NY Times about Diana Beresford-Kroeger, whose idea for using specifically chosen trees to clean our cities and improve our daily lives is high on the awesome scale.
"She calls herself a renegade scientist, however, because she tries to bring together aboriginal healing, Western medicine and botany to advocate an unusual role for trees.She favors what she terms a bioplan, reforesting cities and rural areas with trees according to the medicinal, environmental, nutritional, pesticidal and herbicidal properties she claims for them, which she calls ecofunctions.
Wafer ash, for example, could be used in organic farming, she said, planted in hedgerows to attract butterflies away from crops. Black walnut and honey locusts could be planted along roads to absorb pollutants, she said."
Check out the full article here.
And you can buy Ms. Beresford-Kroeger's book: "A Garden for Life" (off of amazon).
Love this idea. And really love those two new words:
Bioplan.
Ecofunction.
Very smart.
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