Since 2017 KosiOaks has been experimenting with ways to propagate English Oaks for use as both Host Truffle Trees and Land-care Trees. Why? do you ask, as an architect of 19 years l have always had an interest in how 'we' as designers could support both Climate Change and Architecture in our vulnerable Australian rural environment and the answers don't stop at house design. Over my years in design both in Australia, England and the US l have seen many way to construct houses that fit better on the land but nothing that comes close to stopping hazards like bushfire. I came to the conclusion as a designer many years ago that perhaps there was a need for a greater boundary that surround our rural assets in the form of landscape planting that create a buffer Zone. There are academic papers that support planning for bushfire through landscape design and really it is only commonsense. Mature english oaks planted heavily near buildings in rural areas may help to protect the asset from bush-fire fronts through a shielding effect, this effect may not save the building but may delay the fire front as the deciduous english oak is broard, dense and non- volitile. This oak is also beneficial for stock shading in rural environments where climate change may have produced an increase in temperature.
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