Today’s episode is a short primer on live staking – what it is, how it works, what its good for, what types of species you can use to do it, and how to harvest, prepare and plant your live stakes.
If you have perennially moist soils in need of stabilization, or are able to irrigate certain areas to ensure adequate soil moisture for establishment, you can plant hundreds of trees for pennies per stem and create living structures that provide many layers of function while getting stronger over time!
Livestaking is a great way to establish living fences, plant and grow living structures, stabilize eroded stream or gully banks, establish large trees in pasture, plant living fence posts and much more. It is a greate example of how when we work with nature we can create landscapes that are exponentially more functional and abundant for us, both today and in the future.
Show Resourcesb
- SHD Primer – All About Live Staking
- Expanded list of woody species that can be used for live staking – all but guaranteed that you’ve got what you need growing nearby
- Curated YouTube playlist showing live staking application across a variety of different settings and bioregions.
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