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.

Lawn, soon to be gone.

Making bed

More beds

Horse shoe bed

Butternut squash where lawn used to be.

Watermelon vines.

Watermelon vines, etc.

watermelon

Cucumber

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

Wild greens

Butternut squash

Young persimmon tree fed by nitrogen-fixing green beans.

Young fig tree starting to bear fruit.

Okra

Green beans

Pea plants.