Our friend Ramsey has an impressive forest garden in Winston-Salem that he started 30 years ago. I met him at a workshop in Pittsboro and it was one of those rare moments when you discover that you are not alone in your optimistic, apocalyptic thinking.
He didn't just bring us edibles (1 cranberry, 3 elderberries, 1 goji berry) but also ornamentals (2 nandina, 2 forsythia, 1 butterfly bush, 7 irises). Ash has been busy! He slept all day yesterday because his body was so exhausted from the hours and hours of digging and hauling.
If you ever want to rip up a bunch of ground in a short period of time, then you need the ultimate hand tool.... THE ROGUE HOE. It's so boss, it has an elephant on it.
Here is the goji berry:
Here are two wildflower beds where Ash laid down seeds (the circle Taz is walking on, and the bare patch to the left and behind Ash):
He put the cranberry next to the blueberry, since they needed to be in the well-watered lowland area:
These three elderberries will one day be HUGE and spreading like wildfire:
We picked up some liquid kelp meal to soak all of these plants before they were transplanted. This is a photo of four blackberry plants that Bountiful Backyards gave us.
We had our first serious deer damage.... one of the asian pear trees was totally eaten!! We will leave it and see if it grows back in the spring.
That roll of chicken wire in the background might be going around the other pear.... but we also bought this stuff to try out:
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