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Caliche: A Food Forest on the Land Nobody Wants

caliche.org ↗ · Civic & Public Life · score 86.0
○Open: public page gives enough substance to understand the site $Paid: pricing, booking, ecommerce, subscription, or paid access is visible ADAds: visible ad load or ad-supported content ✦Pretty: notable design, copy, craft, or presentation ◆Pro: polished, finished-feeling, serious, or operationally mature ◇Niche: specific audience, workflow, or unusually focused use case ◉Human: personal, local, community, civic, handmade, or real-person signal !Suspicious: scammy, spammy, trust theater, finance fog, or credibility concern

A South Texas food-forest project documents nine years of growing on a downtown Alice lot, using native species, deep watering, mulch, and biochar instead of permanent irrigation.

Why it surfaced

Caliche makes its case with an unusually tangible record: public aerial and satellite images spanning 2004 to 2025, alongside claims of surviving an ice storm and two drought summers with zero sprinklers. The site is also recruiting seven volunteer directors to help turn the King Street experiment into a nonprofit model for unwanted lots across South Texas.

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