ChicoryLane Model:
Practices

• Select site(s)
  • Ecologically coherent
  • Comfortable scale (e.g., 1-3 acres)
  • Need or opportunity
    
    
• Document it
  • Images (before, during, and after)
  • Base Map (informal)
  • Note significant natural features (e.g., streams, rocks or trees, orientation)
  • Plant List (Identify native species)


• Plan
  • Reflect on Documentation Stage
    • What have you learned about your site?
    • How have your perspective and desires changed?
  • Pay special attention to the species already there
    • If they thrive in this site, additional plants or similar species probably will, too
  • What aspects should be left as-is?
  • What aspects invite change?
    • Species whose numbers could be increased, decreased, introduced
  • Define Palettes of similar or complementary species
    • Desirable, undesirable, new introductions
    • Include Ecological Functions of species in your considerations
  • Planting Maps of intended changes at the palette level
  
  
• Implement
  • Designate sequences of actions
  • Identify resources needed
  • Timeline
  
  
• Assess
  • Reflective Narrative
    • How has your project changed the Ecological Quality of the site?
    • Qualitative, rather than quantitative, emphasis
    • Information and perspective useful to the landowner
  • Useful data, where available
    • E.g., 1-year survival
  • Note relations to surrounding areas