Planting Apple Trees, and Hazelnut Bushes

5 bags of leaf compost, 3 apple trees, and 2 hazelnut bushes.

In the Spring of 2021 I had purchased three apple trees (1 McIntosh, 1 State Fair, and 1 Cortland), and two hazelnut bushes/trees to plant on our property. This would be the first trees, and shrubs that I would plant on our new property, and the beginnings of my forest garden! 😀 Up until then…

Forest Garden Project: Clearing, and Mowing The Second Segment of The Main Trail

Marked in orange is the second segment of the main trail.

It’s been a while since I have made any blog posts. I will try to change that. 🙂 Last Spring I started out pretty strong as usual with way too many plans, and big ambitions. At the time, little did I know that the coming Summers extremely hot weather would bring a pause to everything.…

Square Foot Gardening Certified Instructor

Me in my square foot garden.

I am happy to announce that I am now a square foot gardening certified instructor! ? After completing all the class work, passing all the exams, building, growing, and documenting my own square foot garden. I have successfully fulfilled all of the Square Foot Gardening Foundations requirements, and am now officially a square foot gardening…

Forest Garden Project: Video Tour of The First Segment of The Main Trail

Earlier this Spring I started the process of building a nature trail through our woods and around our pond to the other side of our property. Well, after many hours of digging large rocks and boulders out by hand, clearing fallen branches, mowing, and months of general maintenance, I believe it’s starting to look like…

Prepping My Late Start Vegetable Garden

My weed filled garden mess left over form last year.

Well, maybe not late but just in time! I usually start planting around Mothers Day, but this year I took on way to many projects. I was beginning to think that I wouldn’t have time for a vegetable garden this year. But as luck would have it, I found the time on the very same…

Forest Garden Project: Clearing, and Mowing The First Part of The Main Trail

The first 20 yards (18.288 meters) of the planed main trail rout.

After many days of hard work and waiting on the weather, I am happy to announce that the first segment of the main trail is now complete! In case you missed it! I wrote a blog article about Scouting, and Planning The Main Trail a couple weeks ago. It might be a good idea to…

Forest Garden Project: Scouting, and Planning The Main Trail

Planed entrance to main trail.

Our property is about 10 acres in size, and about 7 to 7 1/2 acres of it is woods, wild grasses, wild flowers, and some marsh area, with a large natural pond in the middle of it. I guess it could be best described right now as a savanna. There are many native wild edibles…