Food Forest Garden Timelapse - Year One

[tadlee]

you're very tidy

[NinaThePitbull]

i wish people would stop talkign about the stupid pool. you couldnt use it for much. way too big to make it an aquaculture project without turning your yard into a sciance lab. then youd need a way to keep the squirrels, racoons etc. other wildlife away.

any livestock is such a laborious task. hence the reason for a food forest, food with less labour involved ( youll never get food with no lablor, doesnt work that way)

f##k the pool, awesome food forest!!!!

[ourhappyearth]

@NinaThePitbull Add to the fact that we pretty much eat vegetarian.

[sarcasticcomment]

Didn't there used to be a pool there?



[TheWwweee]

@sarcasticcomment yes

[OurHumbleLife]

NICE!!!

[AbattoirDream]

its good, but i would have put the pool to good use and built around it instead of wasting it.

[aderbrian]

could have used the pool to capture rain water. you have to irrigate there im guessing.

[mattkirkwood]

amazing! cant believe this is just 1 years progress

[Aacis]

you should plant weed nice garden anyways ;)

[Aacis]

you should plant weed

[jellyfishbones0]

great, but its not a food forest (no trees), its a mandala bed

[ourhappyearth]

@jellyfishbones0 Your half right - mandala vegie beds in the foreground, background is the beginnings of a food forest. Look carefully and you can see the grass being remove, ground covers sown and planted, then along come pioneer shrubs and trees (only 1m tall at this stage after a year so a bit hard to make out).

[davejohnsonnola]

thinks you are having trouble seeing the forest for the trees!

[davejohnsonnola]

thinks you are having trouble seeing the forest for the trees! (small though they are).

Excellent example of using fotos taken from the same POV thruout time. thanx!

[zenhacker]

you got rid of the pool? Noooo! haha!

[aihlo]

if you kept the pool you coulda done some aquaculture too! grape vines over the water keep warm during frost. Bill Mollison has an audio lecture on aquaculture actually extremely informative. you could build another pool ; )lol jk, what youd did is awesome

[ourhappyearth]

aquaculture is not much good for us because we eat vegetarian at home.  Plus, it was the ideal spot for a vegie garden getting full sun all day long in the winter time.

[aihlo]

if you left the pool you coulda done some aquaculture too!

[ourhappyearth]

aquaculture is not much good for as we eat vegetarian at home. Plus, it was the ideal spot for a vegie garden getting full sun all day long in the winter time.

[leanbarton]

Way better than a giant bath, I mean swimming pool.

[button1943]

the way forward!!!

[chuckthelumberjack]

Are you guys trying to build a whole lot of biomass in your first year? I didn't see a tree in those circles, I was expecting a tree to pop in there.

[ourhappyearth]

The circles are our vegie beds so no trees but heaps of vegies :) First 3-6 months we sowed green manure crops while we worked on other areas of the landscape. Later when time allowed we start to grow our first vegies. Now (Jan 2010) we grow all our herbs and vegies that we need in these circles

[chuckthelumberjack]

Ah, no winter where you live, I see. Congratulations on this amazing feat!

[bbagginz]

Well done guys, you're an inspiration!

[gardenearth]

Inspiring!

[HomesteadProvocateur]

Excellent! Lots of work eh?

[PakaNoHida]

Not if you know the methods of Fukuoka.. no chemicals, no compost, no weeding, no nothing need be done. Check him out.

[theproducegarden]

awesome!

[711shamn]

where are the trees?

[ourhappyearth]

There is a the makings of a vegetable garden in the foreground, the begginings of the food forest are in the background - there would be over 30 trees and shrubs planted down the back but are a little hard to make out at the moment as they are young and hence small. You may have to wail unitl year two before they become a bit clearer. Check out our website (google happy earth) for more info

[ourhappyearth]

We live in Wollongong which is an hours drive south of Sydney

[ourhappyearth]

Calrids, we've planted hundreds and hundreds of plants - just about all are edible. Last count we have put in over 120 fruit trees, shrubs and vines. Check out our website for more info.

[irkone]

It looks like you got a whole lot of work done in one year! In what bioregion is this set?

[pixelatedplanet]

NICE JOB!

[clarids]

Great, i'd like to know what plants you've planted.

[ourhappyearth]

Check out our website (google happyearth) for a list of plants. Last count weve planted over 105 fruiting trees, shrubs and vines on out 923 sqm block. Three years on we are self-sufficient on fruit and nearly so with our vegies all year around