by John Johnson | Jul 22, 2021 | Food Forest, Videos
Learning how to thin fruit trees in a food forest is important for anyone interested in growing a thriving backyard orchard. This is an important food forest task that most people don’t think about when dreaming of growing a big backyard orchard. Due to the...
by John Johnson | Jul 22, 2021 | Food Forest, Videos
Native plants should be part of your urban homesteading food forest design. We are using some native plants such as elderberry, western red cedar, red flowering currents, and more as a hedge in the front of our yard. We have intermingled flowers and ground cover...
by John Johnson | Jul 15, 2021 | Food Forest, Growing Vegetables, Videos
We put in a short row of 10 cucumbers in our backyard against the garage. This is a small space that we have sectioned off from the rest of the area we allow our ducks to roam and forage. Given that we have used so much of our garden for fruit trees and perennials we...
by John Johnson | Jul 14, 2021 | Food Forest, Videos
Do like to grow artichokes? Consider letting your artichokes go to flower in your food forest garden to help bees and other pollinators. We allow the majority of our artichokes to flower. An artichoke produces huge beautiful purple flowers. Consequently, if you let...
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