Part 3: Imagining the Future Forest Garden Canopy
My rough base map needed some
on the ground measurement before I moved on to the next stage.
Here's my revised version, showing more accurate distances between
fruit trees, an approximation of their eventual canopy cover, and a few
more primary paths. You'll notice that the brush pile
miraculously disappeared --- I hope I'm able to make that happen.
I also decided to move the baby persimmon to a gap in the woods once I
read that it can grow up to 50 feet
in diameter!
I also jotted down locations of created ditches/wetlands (known as "swales" in permaculture parlance.) My goal is to use a judicious ditching system to create wetland patches while drying up the surrounding soil. This is a big question mark, but I'm adding it to the map!
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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