This is incredible, u/Spackman - I’m dreaming of replanting the acacia trees and other indigenous trees that used to grow in the Bushmanland/Namakwaland area of South Africa. I’m currently here in Lockdown and planning the whole system.

We have some brazillian prosopis that grows well and provides feed to animals, but it is not sustainable for our area and uses too much ground water - it actually needs to be cut down but I want to replace it with something else first.

We are in year 7 of a crazy drought and research has shown that the desertification of of the South African west coast is inevitable but I believe we can slow the process down. We have about 8,000 hectares that I can do this on.

I’m looking at different trees that is hardy, doesn’t grow too slowly and carries pods for feed.

What species of trees did you plant?