My Permaculture Food Forest
My Permaculture Food Forest
I was debating on whether to add this page to my website, and it’s ongoing articles or not. Basically another blog, with a different subject line.
I finally decided to start documenting my journey of creating an off grid, permaculture food forest with you guys, as all you, my customers will have a part of what I create. Any extra money I make selling seeds will be invested there.
It is not a stretch to say, if you buy my seeds, you will be reducing your carbon footprint, through my food forest.
I have been planting trees, bushes, and perennial plants for just under one year, and have several hundred growing now, with thousands to follow. I would love to fill much of my 80 acres, but will be limited by the fact they will all need to be on irrigation in that semi arid environment.
I will be sharing lots of pictures, and videos of projects I am involved with, and short posts to document it all.
This will be the home page of the my permaculture food forest blog, with links below to any and all content I will add. This will give you guys another thing to enjoy on my site, besides looking at, and dreaming about all the seeds you want. lol
- My Off Grid Beginnings
- Game Cam Videos
- My New Bird Feeder
- Solitary Bee Wall
- Permaculture in Action
- The Bear Comes to the Food-Forest
- Planting More Plants in the Food-Forest
- Planting Herbs in the Food-Forest
- Summer in the Food-Forest
- Plants Destined for the Food-Forest
- Summer in the Food-Forest
- Squirrels help Themselves
- My New Out-House
- Fall is Beautiful Up At My Property
- Indian Summer, Granddaddy Purple, and Elk!
- Planting Your Food-Forest Inexpensively
- Spring Projects at My Off-Grid Property/FoodForest
- Spring Has Sprung! Things Begin to Grow
- My New E35 Bobcat Excavator Gets Things Done Quickly!
- Growing D’Qar Cannabis Seeds Up At My Property
- Vultures Are Nesting Nearby
- Adding One of Many Food Plots
- Adding Even More Food Plots, and Prepping for My New Container
- Winter Coming At My Off-Grid Property
- Spring Up At My Off-Grid Property…2025
- Summer 2025…Plants Are Getting Established
9 thoughts on “My Permaculture Food Forest”
Where There is Water – Life:
Go crazy with planting trees, however, at some point drought can lead to a significant crop reduction ,or failure. This is the reason to dig ( baby dig) a trough or a well for a water source. I have seen some elaborate designs ranging from a small cemented swim pool construct to a polyurethane sheeted ,wood- framed ice rink that holds water. Indeed, nothing living survives on our earth without water!
Sincerely;
Sean
I am ahead of you Sean, I had a well drilled a few years ago. It supplies only 6 gals a minute, but never runs out. I have it pumping solar direct, so when the sun shines it pumps…about 3000 gals a day. Much of it waters what I have planted with either drip, or 8 overhead sprinklers. Some water always pumps up a hill to a 500 gal tank, which the gravity flows back down the hill, creating about 20 lbs of pressure…enough to run a sprinkler as well. Too, when the tank is full, there is an over flow 40 ft pipe that just runs the excess out on the ground at the top of the hill, which flows under ground watering anything planted on the hill whose roots can reach down to the water which is about 4 feet or less….because of the bedrock. It has been working really well, especially this the trird year, as many of the trees have gotten down to the deep water. The stuff I planted would all die without it.
Jerry I would be happy to review your excellent operation – which of course translates into great growing experience run with a solid helping of mutual respect, and of course some excellent smoke- .Thank you for keeping humanity in the works- and of curse o your unbeatable customer service.
Jerry Kirk
That sounds like a great feature in addition to seeds. I spent a year travelling and living in north central and northeast Washington in the 90s. I’m sure much of the landscape has shifted with the changed medical and recreational laws there.
I am looking forward to this fresh content. Thanks Jerry!
Thanks Timothy, I am loving the process, I hope to be living there this next winter.
Thats quite a project. Like mine only on a much bigger scale. Very interesting I will be following your page to learn what I can for my adventure.
I think that is a great area for growing. Mine is mostly just to live off-grid as much and as comfortably as possible. And im a big kid so o plan to have a good electric bike to run around on. LOL. And not have to depend on the gas station as I have several solar powered generators to charge batteries.
Wife and I are trying to do the same thing. But in Virginia. We recently purchased land there. Still live in tn. Till home is built. Tiny cottage but be 100% off grid. With solar, wind and water for power. And we plan on making a cannibus farm once licensed. Collecting as many landrace strains as possible. Right now I have Vietnamese black , Durbin poison, afghan kush , hashplant , Hindu kush , and Panama red that I got from u. Near future I’ll be getting ur other landrace strains u have. The Vietnamese black to me 16 weeks to get and about a yr to find. Good luck on ur project. Nice to see someone else like minded.
That all sounds awesome Brian. I am planning on a big enough solar system to be able to have an indoor grow with LED’s. Right now up there I am just shooting for alot of diversity plant wise. I would love to have a few acres of deciduous trees growing…all on drip irrigation, as it is basically semi arid. I will put up a new post on that page soon, I just got home from two days of getting my water going and adding even more plants.
That’s awesome Brian. We moved to Eastern Virginia recently. When I was younger I would have pursued the dream you are living, if my life has gone a different route. For now, it is fun to experience that kind of living vicariously through places like this.
I should have some Indian Landraces available fairly soon, if that interests you.