by John Johnson | Jul 29, 2021 | Food Forest, Videos
We are harvested tons of peaches from our urban food forest in our front yard. We thin the fruit trees in order to make sure the fruit that grows gets large and ripe. The peaches started to ripen up last week and there is a faint smell of delicious peach when you get...
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 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...
by John Johnson | Jun 9, 2021 | Sustainability
What is Urban Homesteading Urban homesteading has multiple meanings. For our purposes, we are referring to the urban homestead in the self-sufficiency sense and not the affordable housing definition with the intent on getting people in cities housed. Overview While...
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