Clear non-native growth and seed a native mixed-grass savanna opening.

A mesquite savanna opening at this public reservoir's shoreline sheds rain instead of holding it, its native mixed-grass understory crowded out or bare, ground that a Concho Valley mixed-grass seed mix would otherwise anchor.

Where

Ballinger City Lake (Lake Ballinger) public shoreline, Valley Creek, approximately six miles northwest of Ballinger, TX 76821 (public City of Ballinger reservoir, Runnels County) · Open the map

Pay

$165 proposed

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Proof

before/after photos plus area-cleared record plus seed-mix/area record plus GPS

This is exactly what gets it approved. Nothing settles without it.

Level

intermediate

Open until

2026-09-30

Posted by

0x034F…6c89

The creator wallet. Its signature is what approves proof and settles the wage.

How this work is done

A documented method, so this packet comes out the same whoever does it.

Steps

1. 1. Confirm the treatment patch with City of Ballinger staff and photograph the bare or non-native-encroached mesquite savanna opening before starting.
2. 2. Hand-clear non-native growth from the patch with hand tools only, no power equipment.
3. 3. Hand-broadcast a native little bluestem, sideoats grama, and buffalo grass seed mix across the cleared ground at the labeled application rate and rake it in.
4. 4. Water in the seeding and photograph the finished savanna patch from the matching before vantage, recording the seed mix and area seeded.

What counts as done

• Before photo of the bare or non-native-encroached opening
• Area hand-cleared recorded
• Native mixed-grass seed mix product/label photo and area seeded recorded
• After photo of the seeded patch from the matching vantage

Proof is measured against these, not judged by taste.

The standard this serves

Soil Health. Soil health is the discovery, now written into USDA standards, that soil is not dirt but a living body: it breathes, digests, holds water, and can sicken or recover. The tests are wonderfully physical. Time how fast water soaks in. See whether a clod holds together in water or falls apart. Smell for the sweetness of organic matter. Mastery looks like a farmer who can read a handful of ground like a page. This packet is one plot examined by those methods and recorded, one honest page in the story of a piece of land.