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. If they were left intact, the eucalyptus would break them or uproot them when they fell.
As part of our wwoofing program, we teach people how to safely and effectively operate chainsaws and how to fell trees in the direction intended.
After the trees are felled, they are de-limbed and our wwoofer, Beatrice, removes the limbs and piles them for compost and kindling.
After the land is cleared of the smaller trees, some of the giant eucalyptus are ring-barked to kill the tree, but leave it standing until a time when it can be cut down.
After the eucalyptus trees die, all the leaves will fall off and allow more sunlight to penetrate our fertile gardens and allow our seeds to thrive and grow healthy foods for us to all thrive and grow also!
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