JemmyFarmers planting a tree, Nablus, Palestine, ~1930
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Looks like they’re planting it in solid rock. I wonder if it survived?
I’m looking at this wondering if these men have ever seen a tree before because it sure looks like they don’t know where trees like to grow.
Olive trees don’t give a fuck and to be honest most trees don’t.
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/White-rocks-piled-around-the-base-of-individual-olive-trees-provide-an-effective-mulch_fig8_226646311
One of the reasons they were so valued. There are numerous pre-modern polities which offered tax breaks for people growing olive trees, in part because they realized that once those olive trees are established after a decade of growth, not much other than human intervention is going to rid the land of those valuable trees.
Olive tree: “I’ve survived for hundreds of years, through multiple droughts and floods, and I still produce fruit 💪💪💪💪💪”