If you are interested in learning more about J. Russell Smith, the author of "Tree Crops", I recommend this article (where I pulled the quote from) which just happened to drop yesterday.
https://daily.jstor.org/he-spoke-for-the-trees-and-also-the-soil/
Economic Botany
"I here call attention to the idea of a new agriculture, a tree-crop agriculture, which seems to hold the promise of easily doubling our productive area and making revolutions in man's relation to his environment second only, perhaps, to the influence of steam." - J. R. Smith
The Oak Tree and Man's Environment
J. Russell Smith
Unfortunately he was a psycho who said to plant honey locust 😂
Thornless honey locust.
THORNLESS! 😆
All jokes aside, I have seen many schoolyards and universities planted in thornless honey locusts for decades and there really isn't a problem unless you let the seed pods stay on the ground where they might sprout new trees which have like a 50/50 chance of bringing in a thorned honey locust. And that shit is awful.
They should definitely only be planted in pastures with animals that eat the pods, i know sheep and pigs do, but im not sure ive seen cows eat it.
