Derek Carter

Here is an Apple Pollination Chart I've been working on that organizes varieties based on flower group / flowering time instead of alphabetically since that is the main driver for compatibility.

It also identifies triploid varieties that have sterile pollen and do not pollinate any other varieties.

Let me know what you think and if there are any mistakes or additions you'd like to see.

Only 3 days left before I draw a winner!

Kyle,

I ship to zone 6b on March 25th.  Below is the shop filtered by everything compatible with zone 6.  You can do this filter on product category pages as well.

https://foodforestnursery.com/shop/?filter_hardiness-zone=6&query_type_hardiness-zone=or

For those in other regions here is the shipping schedule:

Hey everyone I wanted to announce a $1000 Food Forest Giveaway I'm lunching on my nursery website!

https://foodforestnursery.com/food-forest-giveaway/

Enter by December 24th to win a $1000 store credit towards a Food Forest bundle. Huge selection of fruit and nut trees, berries, and vines. No purchase required

We specialize in bare root fruit trees, nut trees, berries, fruiting vines, native plants, nitrogen fixers, and other perennial permaculture plants.  We select the varieties we grow for disease resistance (in our humid climate in the Arkansas Ozarks), flavor, overall variety in our diet, and hardiness to zone 7 or colder.

If you have PIE you get 15% anything you order!

If you don't have PIE yet you can still get a discount by ordering in BULK and using these codes at checkout:
5PLANTS - Get 5% OFF ant 5 or more plants
10PLANTS - Get 10% OFF ant 10 or more plants
20PLANTS - Get 15% OFF ant 20 or more plants

We harvest persimmon, pawpaws (favorite), elderberries, mulberries, and blackberries.

Its not fruit but we also harvest black locust flowers in the spring and it makes up about 25% of our salad for a couple weeks.

There are also plenty of black walnuts, hickory, and acorn to harvest.

If you're in the Ozarks I highly recommend Foraging the Ozarks by Bo Brown.

Nicole Alderman wrote:Your website looks amazing! I like that you have some really reasonably priced plants, like the American Plum seedling.

I've had terrible luck growing plums, probably due to it being so damp on my property (I'm on a north-facing slope surrounded by trees and wetlands. We have soaking dew all year round.) Do you think this plum tree would do well in my microclimate here in the Pacific Northwest?

Nicole.

Stone fruit (peach, plum, almonds) struggle in humid climates.  That said this native plum seedling should do much better than the more susceptible domesticated European varieties.  

Denise Cares wrote: I like your plants and trees but see that they are selected for humid climates like the Ozarks.  I live in northern calif where it's very dry except for short periods in winter when we get deluged with rain and/or snow.  Will these plants do well in such climates?    thanks

It's going to vary based on the specific plant and you exact location but in general if you're in a drier area, but can still irrigate, you're going to have fewer disease issues than in a hot humid climate.

We specialize in bare root fruit trees, nut trees, berries, fruiting vines, native plants, nitrogen fixers, and other perennial permaculture plants.  We select the varieties we grow for disease resistance (in our humid climate in the Arkansas Ozarks), flavor, overall variety in our diet, and hardiness to zone 7 or colder.

If you have PIE you get 15% anything you order!

If you don't have PIE yet you can still get a discount by ordering in BULK and using these codes at checkout:
5PLANTS - Get 5% OFF ant 5 or more plants
10PLANTS - Get 10% OFF ant 10 or more plants
20PLANTS - Get 15% OFF ant 20 or more plants

Mushrooms are a great project to go along with the early stages of developing a wooded piece of land.  Our farm is mostly wooded land in the Ozarks and we had to cut in a road and do small scale clearing on the flat spots for building sites and planting.  

We plan any clearing for the cold months when the tree has drawn its sugars from the leaves and stored them in the wood.  Saw logs are turned into lumber, bigger limbs turned into mushroom logs, and small limbs are mulched and mixed with Wine Cap spawn and put around trees or in between garden rows.

After a few years and 2000 logs we started hosting mushroom workshops.  These brought in 20-40 people and was a great way to connect with the community and get our farm on the map as well as pay for all the tools and spawn we needed to continue expanding our mushroom operation.

The standard method of drilling holes (use angle grinder it is 4x faster than hand frill) and filling with sawdust spawn works great but is time consuming.  Some species (lions main, reshi, oyster) do great with totem style where you cut a thick log into discs and stack them with spawn in the middle saving a ton of time.