Halifax Earth Technologies continued to specialize in the management and removal of invasive plants as well as future-oriented ecosystem design.
This year the team finished a goutweed job by dismantling, sifting and rewalling this dry stone raised bed.
While the Ecology Action Centre rebuilt their deck, the central raised bed was restabilized with a dry stacked brick retaining wall.
This homeowner bought a large suburban partly forested plot, and wanted to reclaim some lawn for the forest. We sheet-mulched about a half acre and planted walnut, hazelnut, tamarack, dogwood, Highbush cranberry, Sugar maple, Sumac, and native flowers for pollinator support.
Problem goutweed, knotweed and chamelion plant were first-pass removed.
I did a delightful permaculture design for a site in Yarmouth. This special site contained lakefront property that could be gardened with permission from the local wildlife conservation association. Land would be set aside for a second home, space for food forestry was found, and land under cultivation can be optimized, with a special focus on herbal coffees.
A management plan was drafted for an acre of pasture to be brought back into production using a controlled burn.
