Jungle clearing is a labor and time intensive process to do correctly. The goal is not to kill the jungle, but to make it a useful space. This land was abandoned to nature over 50 years ago. Below, the dark forest is seen in the background of the fallen giant. With no sunlight available, not much vegetation occurs under this canopy. The first step is to cut all the smaller incenso trees (pittosporum undulatum) and canna ( Hedychium gardnerianum) plants from the area, in order to expose the fallen trees blown down in previous years. The insenso is then stacked for drying and future fire wood use. Below, a nice stack is prepared. Below Beatrice separates the branches into one pile and the logs into another for drying and compost. Thank you Beatrice for helping to collect and stack all this wood! The giant eucalyptus trees are carefully cut one at a time, as seen below. With the inceso cut to a meter above ground level, they will regrow.
Building an edible jungle on the Island of Flowers in the Azores