![]() ![]() In this neck of the woods, 5 acres is not a lot. As others mentioned they also are trying to make sure people aren't asking for them to re sell them. You don't even need to have that much land, they are simply trying to avoid getting into direct competition with businesses that rely on retail sales for their livelihood by restricting the sale to people who live outside urban areas. They would rather help people who are otherwise unable to afford to shelterbelt several acres of land, than see the erosion and lack of habitat that would otherwise occur.Īs Conrad said, many of the trees offer food for man bird or beast, as well as possibly being useful for hedging and windbreaks.ĭuring the Depression it helped a lot with saving the soils from being blown to Ontario through the planting of windbreaks. The PFRA was designed to help people looking to make shelterbelts, primarilly. The reason of course is that the nurseries are selling them now so it's not a good thing for the subsidized to be undercutting the businesses. The PFRA used to have some (human) food trees it no longer offers, including saskatoons. For those wishing to create a shelter belt this it is a very useful program. They slow cold winds and provide a wildlife corridor. Shelter belts are commonly thinned out for firewood. All of these trees are rugged survivors which can thrive in a shelter belt in the prairies, without being watered or receiving much other care. And when looking at the species of trees available, most of them would not work into a food forest plan. But as with any program of this sort it was not designed to produce instant profit. These trees exist as an opportunity for people to reforest shelter belts in order to create wildlife habitat and to save fuel around farmhouses and other farm buildings, they are not available for resale purposes which would be the only avenue for someone without land.Įvery citizen who has somewhere to plant the trees is welcome to them. ![]() In the areas where these trees are available land is dirt cheap. They simply want you to show that you have somewhere to plant the trees and there is a 5 acre minimum. There is absolutely no income information on those forms. ![]()
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