Dealing with Spray Drift and Contamination

[@kalamazoopermaculture6405]

I've lost so much through the years to a local dairy farm spraying silage fields. Drift on hot foggy mornings lifts and condenses on my young garden plants without fail. It is very persistent and "sticky". I have a dense buffer of honeysuckle and large canopy trees between the field and my garden area, however, it still gets up and in, carried by mist.

[@b_uppy]

If your canopy is too dense and deep, it does exactly as you say. You need to slow it instead, and yet still have some land as a barrier for the residual drift.

[@amyjones2490]

I feel you. We have tall trees around our hay fields and they seem to "tip" the clouds of spray over our grass.

[@onestepforward1474]

THANKYOU. I just put in 30 Slender Weaver Gracilis to help stop drift spray from a neighbours property. It copes with temps down to -12 I was told. Looking forward to it's benefits. [not the cheapest plants to buy and takes a LOT of water to get established - but well worth the effort I believe if you are having problems with chemical drift and it can fix it].

[@Blackat92]

Hello Geoff, I study architecture and learned about the properties of bamboo as a building material. My question about bamboo in permaculture inspired design is: how do you confine bamboo so it does not become predominant? I always thought that bamboo was invasive and would colonize as much surface as it can. How can you be sure it wont progress over the rest of the property?

[@drpk6514]

In Iran people use poplar as the long thin barrier

[@jeannewallace4851]

Building a robust soil Microbiome could help with bioremediation of contaminated soils too, especially on small holdings where tall tree/bamboo barriers aren’t feasible.

[@mmarrinan]

Are there any health concerns of living on a property surrounded by commercial farms? We have the opportunity to buy 12 acres that is surrounded by several commercial farms that I assume use pesticides on their crops. The property we are looking at is itself surrounded by large trees. Just wondering if you think this is a safe place to live, or if you would recommend against it? Thanks!

[@a4000t]

arborvitae green giant might be a good tree to make a buffer with, it grows fast(3ft/yr+)..it can get 15ft wide and 40ft tall. pretty cold tolerant.

[@b_uppy]

Except the groundwater factor needs to be considered, also. You could maybe augment with something else, but what???

[@TheKlink]

@@b_uppy poplar and willow. Cattails. Dunno about suitable shrubs. Edit: here we go land8/5-best-plants-for-phytoremediation/ Tlsr: Indian Mustard, willow, poplar, Indian Grass, Sunflower.

[@b_uppy]

@@TheKlink Good suggestions. Would use smaller willows, avoid the huge weeping kind because they take up too much space. If you are using this stuff for phytoremediation, would want to avoid using it for food...

[@amyjones2490]

Would poplar trees work for our temperate climate?

[@DiscoverPermaculture]

Yes

[@sweetdweams]

Is it possible bamboo be used to block EMF /5G? We and our animals are in serious trouble. Thank you for all do🙏

[@clubdesalud1488]

I've seen in a lot of places that pretty much any kind of plant blocks 5G: leaves on trees, shrubs, whatevei so bamboo will probably break it up too.

[@avedafaye1366]

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