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How much carbon have YOU sequestered today?

Hügelkultur

by Dave Vargo
 

Trunks and limbs
Cut from forest floor or branch-entwined embrace of yet living trees.

Dead sentinels with flaky bark  . . .

Shall they be gathered
and eviscerated by fierce
pumpkin-tinged flames?

Nay.  I say nay. Why provoke the wrath of ALGORE?

Dig. Dig like a woodchuck that has swallowed the whole pack of Sudafed because Woodchucks can't read. Make this trench long.

Place organic cylinders in communal grave . . . So many they cannot fit in the trench.  The woody mountain rises above the grassy plain.

Covered -
Cloaked in musky black dirt, green grass and
brown leaves.

Let new life feed from the bones of the trees.
Sequester the carbon.  Make it do your bidding.