Hey y’all. I’ve got a little more than six acres of steep (I think mostly 30-50%) mountain (3200ft) land about 25min from Asheville. It’s acidic cove forest (pretty overgrown with laurel and rhododendron) with lots of mature trees of different types (oak, poplar, maple, locus, etc. don’t know much about trees). There are some old logging roads (probably 100yrs old) that form a few terraces. I built myself a little cabin on a short, wide one. Most of the land isn’t terraced though. The ground is covered in a pretty deep leaf litter layer, then some black soil full of stringy roots, then red clay. There’s a super productive spring that’s tapped near the road that runs through the lower portion of the property with a spring head bubbling up around the upper-middle. I want to get started making this land into a homestead i can use to sustain myself and bring in a little income. I’m afraid that lacking a breadth of knowledge about this stuff I’ll accidentally destroy things that are already producing that I don’t know about on the land. If you were me what would you do with this little slice of mountain rainforest?
