Dian Green

William Bronson wrote: The side of these things!
I clearly need a better strain of sunchokes!
What strains get that big?
What have y'all been feeding them?

Mine have just been getting leaves. 2 years of really heavy leaf mulch over flipped sod. (We're on sandy loam) The one pictured was also right next to this years bean patch, so that might have helped.

There must be something about this years weather.
I was out digging for roasting veggies tonight and pulled up this giant 'choke!
It was in my 2nd year gamcod plot and all of those sunchoked grew really big stalks this year and almost all flowered,  which they don't always do here.
Parts of it are roasting right now but it was lovely and crisp and unmarked when we cut it up.

I found a Blog post that has clear and simple instructions for making it at home with natural supplies. She does use cloth but I don't see why the same process wouldn't work for a handmade paper.

Do you have any access to thrift stores? Local Facebook marketplace? You can get a large amount of leather off of one beat up leather jacket. It's also shocking how much you get if you skin a couch or leather chair, even if a chunk of it is damaged. ( people may let you skin it for free if it's going to be dumped)
Broken jewelry is sometimes sold in cheap grab bags.
Really cheap and damaged picture frames can also give you great bases for fancy covers. Just take the glass out and you can put in leather, fabric or mosaic panels and then paint, carve or cover the frames.

If you have a local Habitat for Humanity store, they might have partial sheets of small stone or ceramic mosaic tiles. Also the textured wallpaper that looks like tin. Also they can have lots of little metal bits for texture and some even have metal tape for really cheap.

Old buttons can give a really great range of detail and texture to things and you can paint over the plastic ones or too bright metal ones.

Tinfoil can even work, or aluminum plates and baking pans from the dollar store.

Peas are my main winter microgreen. I've found that the biggest thing for them was to use at least a thin layer of inoculated potting soil. Just coir was not a winner for me.
I did do up a post that shows how I grow them. Growing pea microgreens

I'm not familiar with the setup you mentioned but the lack of soil may be the issue with peas.

I grew up in Newfoundland and low bush blueberries, wild picked off the barrens, was our main winter fruit. (Frozen)
Crumble is always my fave. Pie is good, but those were so intense that my mother always liked to cut them with some apple to reduce the sweetness.
I liked taking a bowl from the freezer and pouring some milk and vanilla over them and then waiting a couple of minutes until it all went slushy like a thick milkshake.

We moved 3 years ago to a pretty blank slate. A bit smaller than you, at just under an acre.
The first thing I did was get my next years order in for some of the slower growing fruit and nut trees.

Around here, there is really only only one good supplier for most of the rarer nuts and they sell out fast with almost a years lead time. I ordered less than a month after our offer went through.
I was able to get chestnuts, hazelnuts, pawpaw, persimmons and low tannin oaks. And most were in the "too big to ship" sizes since we were able to go pick up.
I had moved 60 + pots of things as well.
The first year was about laying out some of bones. The first fall, I put in a chunk of what we moved and prepped spots for the trees that were coming in the spring. We got lucky and scored some free arborist wood chips so I did leaf piles with chips to hold them down and didn't have to lift turf.
When the trees came in, most had at least a partial guild waiting for them.

Since then, I've been filling in our range of other fruit trees as well as shrubs and perennials and making beds and expanding and maintaining the guilds. Also hunting cheap supports, structures and supplies and running some experimental plot trials to see what works here.
Propagation is what I need to do more of now. We're still buying a few things but I'm mostly able to stick to deals and clearance specials now since the "needs" are in and it's all about "wants".

What I want is a way to map my property, mark plants and then track yields and uses over years.

Best would be if I could mark off the lines from a satellite image. Let it keep the orientation info so shade, sun and light angles and timing would be available. Be able to box off and mark buildings. Then expand in and create and fill in geometric shapes and label them as specific plants, so it needs to be able to go down quite small. Perhaps layers where you step down into beds that can be filled in with more details.
Be able to mark perennials and trees and fill in their ages and specific varieties. I'm sure being able to add it pollination types and timing would be helpful for lots of orchard types too. Then make notes for each year about pruning, feeding, issues and production and be able to sort back through the years as time goes on.
Since I'm dreaming, options to create layers or tools that would show how possible things could fit/work in the space. Like you could select a beehive and move it around on the map and it would show an overlay of their typical collection range.

Peas are our main indoor winter crop but I do them as microgreens. The greens taste like fresh peas and you get more for the work and space.
Biggest thing to keep in mind is that I have found them to do MUCH better in inoculated potting soil than coir or any sterile medium. They really need root partners.

Just wanted to say that while my numbers last year may not gave been amazing, I am super happy with how things are going in the plot this year.
I just did a thick layer of leaves over it all in the fall, after planting a bunch of garlic.
Did maybe a 1/2 hour of weeding in the spring and planted.
No other work done except harvesting and it is so lush! Skirrets, tomatoes, sunflowers, radishes, beans and cucumbers are all doing great along with some purchased blackberries. (And the garlic were huge)

I am letting a large amount of the green beans go to seed since Im going to need them for next year's plot. I want to use this method for another big section!