Building Our Food Forest from the Bare Ground

We have started putting our food forest in on our new property. We are in a marine temperate zone and this food forest garden covers about 1/4 acre.
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[@elizebethparker5412]

Thank you for bringing us along. The changes will be extremely dramatic. Your goals and plans appear well thought out.

[@mikepapa3196]

It's all worth it once you see your fruit trees in full blossom. It's almost magical the show on our nashi trees at moment, really great full. Being in 'Flintstone country' and our property dug over numerous times in the past for gold have deposits of clay silt which compacts too and not much else grew except gorse and blackberry! Once de-rocked we hoed up the clay with a little compost, the first and only time we'll till also. Same like you, not a worm, but after a year they're starting to show up with their friends, cover crops help that organics in the soil/ground. Keep up the good work!

[@FantailValleyHomestead]

oh that is encouraging!

[@amandalogan9693]

I'm really looking forward to seeing your progress with your property and how you tackle the challenging environment. Well done!

[@thecurlefarm]

good on you guys!!! such hard workers. youl look back in afew years and pat yourself on the backs. its going to be awesome!!

[@carmenking8565]

Congratulations! Looking forward to seeing how it all progresses.. keep us posted. Hard work but it will be so rewarding. Watching from Ireland 😊

[@FantailValleyHomestead]

Thank you! Will do!

[@yvonnedebruin595]

Thank you for sharing, have been really enjoying your journey and the why and how of what you are doing.😊

[@FantailValleyHomestead]

I'm so glad!

[@monkeypuzzlefarm]

I can't wait to see how it turns out :) It has been so educational watching how you are developing that land. Lots of hard work!

[@FantailValleyHomestead]

So much hard work haha. I am really appreciating having 2 older kids this time around - 13 and 11 year olds are so much more capable and willing to help than the 7 and 5 that they were when we built our current place! Plus they can baby sit the younger two

[@marietjepeter6129]

@@FantailValleyHomestead you are blessed dear.

[@DavidSmith-ox4tu]

Chip the wood scraps and plant fungi the worms will come.

[@FantailValleyHomestead]

Good plan! We have a huge pile of bark mulch too from where they de-barked all the trees

[@kathymarie85]

I didn't realize it's controversial to till the ground?

[@FantailValleyHomestead]

yeah some people are really anti tilling. To be fair I am not a huge fan of it either - it releases a lot of carbon and nitrogen into the air leaving less good soil, and disrupts and disturbs the fungi network - on a side by side comparison no-till soil produces more year on year and it improves as time goes on too.

[@marietjepeter6129]

@@FantailValleyHomestead wow. I'm new to this info.