by Michael Hofferber. Copyright © 1995. All rights reserved.
It is early spring and I am walking the windbreak I planted last spring. This stand of saplings should rise up 20 feet in a dozen years or so, providing some protection against the hot, dry westerlies that blow this way come summer.A properly constructed windbreak can deter winds 10 times the height of the tallest tree, or so I've read. Planted in a bell-shaped curve with the tallest trees in the middle and shrubs on either end, the aerodynamic windbreak will re-direct breezes around a field, giving soils and tender seedlings some peace.
Continued at... Windbreak
Michael HofferberRural Delivery
Artwork: Agricultural Landscape in France with Distant Windbreak of Trees
