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Commenced:	01/01/2014
Submitted:	04/03/2014
Last updated:	07/10/2015
Location:	5675 Majestiv View Rd SW, Deming, NM, US
Website:	www.facebook.com/IslandofGreen
Climate zone:	Hot Desert

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Project: Island of Green (in the desert)

Posted by Geert Cuypers about 10 years ago

What is needed, and who can help?

VOLUNTEERS INVITED:
What is needed, and who can help?

1. Digging 1 1/2 miles of swales:
Anyone who can wield a shovel is welcome! The use of dirt moving equipment (excavator, back hoe) would obviously greatly speed up this initial phase, but that costs money.

2. Sheet mulching.
Anyone who can provide or transport manure, straw, leaves, compost, tree branches, etc. We'll need huge quantities.

3. planting:
We will need cuttings, rooted plants, cover crop and flower seeds. Lots of them!
And people to help plant them as well.

a. Desert pioneer trees and bushes:
desert willow, Mexican Elderberry, desert sumac, skunkbush sumac, buffaloberry, black locust, chokecherry, hackberry, lilac, Nanking cherry, NM forestiera, serviceberry, Woods' rose, burr oak, gambell oak, pinon, juniper, cypress, pine, redcedar, maple, fir, ...

b. Fruiting and flowering trees:
nuts, apples, pears, peaches, apricots, cherries, prunes, berries, ...

c. Cover crops: red clover, barley, oats, annual grasses, ...
Flowering plants, both annuals and perennials, or seeds...

4. Animals:
Anyone who can provide a few birds (chickens, ducks, geese, pigeons, guinea fowl, ...), goats, pigs or can contribute electrified fences and building materials fto build animal shelters.

5. an attorney:
to set up a not-for-profit legal framework for the project.

6. a veterinarian to check on the animals once in a while.

7. an accountant / bookkeeper to assist with budgeting and bookkeeping

8. local organizations and businesses can help sponsor this project.
Any financial, material of volunteer assistance would be greatly appreciated.

9. students or professionals interested in permaculture, gardening, reforestation, conservation and restoration, ...

10. passersby, visitors, friends, locals, countrymen, foreigners,city people, farmers, ...

Of course, comments and suggestions are always welcome.

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Tammie Hewitt : I have some things I am willing to share. I also am not sure if you know that you can get compost free from the city of las cruces

Posted almost 10 years ago

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