guildfordcycads

Hello!! This year I started the fruit orchard… I have planted apples, and will be planting pears, cherries, peaches when they arrive. Over time I will continue adding more fruit trees.

I have strawberries around one tree and have been creating guilds over time too.

I would like to have ducks in the orchard full-time. We have 5 ducks that are in a fully enclosed pen with house, but I’d like some that care for the orchard.

Will they eat all the lower lying guild plants? Anyone have a setup like this?

Thanks for any information!

These 3 american chestnuts have been growing in my house from seed since January. I mist them daily bc I thought it could be from having forced hot air heating. Any input would be much appreciated.

I’ve emptied the whole winter’s stove ash into a cardb box, and I’ve accumulated at least a few cubic feet worth. Do what the best use for it all?

As the title says, I’m completely devastated and need to vent for a moment…

I’ve protected a lot of young trees with protective sleeves but equally had lots of bushes that I planted last fall. Since they all were bushier in shape I couldn’t protect them as I did for the trees. I’ve had some deer browse before but this time I must’ve lost over 30 bushes and plants that were ripped apart and had their barks stripped.

From roses to figs, haskaps, currants and other flowering shrubs… All of these planted with countless hours over the winter. I’m devastated and heartbroken and feel close to giving up on the entire project. It’s my third year now and I feel like I keep pouring my heart into converting this land into a food forest just to have one setback after another. Since the surface area is quite large installing a tall enough fence would likely be cost prohibitive, so I’ll have to make things work with individual protection for each thing I plant. I was really hoping I could get away with less protection for the bushes. And still not sure how I’d even protect them while leaving enough space for them to grow in all directions.

Now I’m anxious how the next days will go as the damage will likely continue and I have neither time nor energy to install more protection. Anyone got some kind words to keep me going?

Hey so I live in the middle east west part of the negev and I’m trying to figure out a way how to make my soil more fertility so my soil is very sandy, like dune sand, and I have a relatively thick layer of very compacted chalky soil under the sand, and I have compost available but, it’s not really enough and we don’t have much rain and I also wanna make the chalky soil less compacted, any options?.

I hope you find it inspiring

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmwDwMTXXVQ

In this inspiring documentary, a Scandinavian family share their journey of transforming barren, lifeless soil into a thriving, self-sustaining ecosystem.
Over 12 years, they have built a regenerative permaculture farm with perennial plants, integrated livestock, and a resilient food system