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063 - 1000′s of Trees and Half an Acre. Small Scale Nursery Business with Akiva Silver
As my guest today Akiva Silver will explain, you can start a small scale nursery with very little space. Putting a lot of plants on really tight spacings;I mean A LOT of trees on REALLY tight spacings.
When you hear it intuitively your first thought is probably, that's way too close. The trees will suffer and the roots will tangle up.
But that is not the results that Akiva Silver has had. Akiva has a small nursery business where he grows over 1000 trees on a half an acre. Thousands of trees plant tightly together in loose, friable soil. Very tight spacings that force trees to grow tall and…
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