Year 1 of Dr. Rudy's Food Forest

Year 1 was all about clearing land, breaking ground, creating beds, and planting tree. As with other fledgling food forests, most of the production (about 99.99%) that year came from annual plants -- tomatoes, cucumbers, okra, greenbeans, butternut squah, and watermelon. Production from trees and perennial bushes was limited consisted of a few pounds of figs and a handful of blackberries and blueberries. I was also blessed with an abundance of wild greens and some wild blackberries.

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  Lawn, soon to be gone.

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  Making bed

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  More beds

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  Horse shoe bed

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  Butternut squash where lawn used to be.

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  Watermelon vines.

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  Watermelon vines, etc.

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  watermelon

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  Cucumber

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  Young apple tree, fed by nitrogen-fixing climbing beans.

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  Wild greens

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  Butternut squash

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  Young persimmon tree fed by nitrogen-fixing green beans.

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  Young fig tree starting to bear fruit.

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  Okra

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  Green beans

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  Pea plants.