From: songbird@anthive.com   
      
   Nelly W wrote:   
      
   ...   
   > Sorry so verbose.   
      
     haha!  no problem with me.  :)  i'd rather read a long description   
   that gives enough details than not enough.   
      
     if you are looking to encourage wild life look into   
   some fruit and nut trees.  oaks for sure.   
      
     on the bigger scheme of things i would always go for   
   diversity and encouraging it further.   
      
     if you want to do a food forest that can be a lot of   
   fun.  at first you start with the nitrogen fixers and   
   can plant veggies in between until the trees get bigger   
   and cast too much shade.  once you have some shade then   
   you can go for a mixed planting of other trees like   
   removing or cutting back every other nitrogen fixer   
   tree and replacing with selected fruit and nut trees.   
      
     bush cherries if you can find any that will work in   
   your area.   
      
     bush blueberries are always good food for human and   
   others.  depends upon how high up you are if it is   
   cool enough long enough to make it worth it.   
      
     cider apples, or just random scattered apple seeds   
   which some may be interesting or not, but animals will   
   like the fruits in the late summer and fall, besides   
   you might like some hard cider.   
      
     for the super long term keeping some area covered   
   enough to grow some dense hearted long lived trees for   
   superb musical and furniture woods.  things you would   
   not see in your lifetime, but eventually someone would   
   benefit.   
      
     do not burn any of the trimmings or stumps, they   
   make good habitat and fodder for the animals and bugs   
   and of course fungi.   
      
     wish i had enough area to do likewise...  :)   
      
      
     songbird   
      
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