Let's plant ANOTHER Food Forest!

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Today we are off to get more trees! Why do we need more trees? Because reasons.

Sure we have one food forest, but what about another food forest!?

The old man walking trail is an extension of my existing food forest, utilizing some lower lands where my upper lands rainfall runoff would feed. When I first got this land, this lower area was almost a complete monoculture of dog strangling vine, except for the prolific poison ivy growing through it. Over the years I cleared it out, mowed it constantly and re-seeded it to grass and clover. The constant cutting eventually starved out the dog strangling vine and poison ivy, yet the grasses and clovers (and other low vegetation like plantain, dandelion, etc) took back over.

Then 2 years ago I decided to now convert this lower area into a food forest, drastically reducing the mowing requirements (in the long term it will completely eliminate it). It also now functions as a demonstration site for "resetting an area full of nasty plants".

The area was sheet mulched using leaf bags in a 5 part series of videos beginning here in November 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aKH5moZJ9M.

Now that it has spent a full growing season (and 2 winters) building soil (converting grasslands bacterial dominated soils towards fungal dominated soils that trees want), it's the best time ever to plant into it with tree species.

Today is the day where the course of this land is changed forever, and led towards a forest.

The species planted today are chosen to maximize diversity and food sources for wildlife as the highest priority. I will also add more and more to this area over the years, taking cuttings from existing plants, collecting seeds and spreading them, and building up the herbaceous and bush layer in that area over the next decade.

The long term plan for this space is to function as a wild corridor of food, which can house my favorite pest predators (birds, bats, snakes, wasps, ladybugs, green lacewings, preying mantis, dragonflies, etc), and also be an area where I can go on long meandering walks, foraging serviceberries, cherries, raspberries, and mushrooms, and then returning in the fall for the heavier crops of paw paws, etc.

I hope you all enjoy this video, and get to work making change on your own land. We evolved in the savannahs and forests of this world. Today I take further steps to return to that history.

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