A Visit Back to our Old Homestead Part 1

We went back to our old house and I took some video of the homesteading infrastructure that we built there including our two straw bale barns, pastures and our compost pile. The woods across the street had been eaten up by the urban sprawl monster.

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[vonhismean]

how much land was that?

[pocketsofthefuture]

3.7 acres

[josephdupont]

So where are you located..?

I have some from new jersey that grew 25 feet tool maybe 1-1/2 " in diameter.

Here it has been in for 2 years but only 6-7 feet tall. Maybe it will go taller when the roots really get situated. I saw that big bamboo at the bronx zoo 5-6" diameter.

I wish I knew the specie..Have you thought about jerusalem artichokes?Also Mulberry trees can grow in low light situations.

Popular tress are edible

[pocketsofthefuture]

We are in zone 6 I believe and I am hoping the giant moso bamboo will grow here. Moso is the most widely used timber bamboo and most used for shoot production.There is a cold whether type 'moso Anderson' that will grow to 70ft. Lewis bamboo, mid-Atlantic bamboo and the American bamboo society have good web sites. We went to mid-Atlantic bamboo farm and it was great. They have a lot of different species and they were all fascinating.

[josephdupont]

I'm growing bamboo in towanda , PA.. 1/3 the height as it grew in Gillette, nJ. great stuff

[pocketsofthefuture]

Thank you for your comments. We really love the bamboo and we just moved one of the clums from this video to our new home. We now have both stone and yellow grove bamboo and hope to add Miso bamboo at some point.

[redfan45x]

i live in northern Minnesota and there are a whole bunch of these from like the 20's and 1800's ive found lots of cool things in them that i collect.

[pocketsofthefuture]

Thank you for your kind comment. One of the good things was that we no longer have to feed the cows hay twice a day. That was both costly and time consuming. The old house was really small and there were other problems. We knew we couldn't stay there. Here, on the other hand, we can stay a long time. We also think we are supposed to be here. Glad you can tell!

[dionysusstar]

I bet it was kinda hard to leave all of that work...until they started building that new house right beside you. Your old place was nice...but your new place is much better! It really looks like your supposed to be at your new place.