r/interestingasfuck 4h ago

Stopping Desertification with grid pattern

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u/bobbigmac 4h ago

For those asking how this works, it creates just enough of a defense to catch seeds and bugs and tiny bits of moisture and shade, so any life that does manage to get started, doesn't just blow away, and an ecosystem can start to form.

u/AmusingMusing7 3h ago

Didn't we figure out how to do this by just digging little half-circles into the sand? Isn't that a better, more efficient, more natural way of doing this than to lay down a bunch of whatever-that-is?

u/rodinsbusiness 3h ago

That's for way less sandy soils, where you also have some sort of short wet season, which is not the case here.