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This young grape vine was less that a foot tall (0.3 meters) when I trasplanted it next to this young apple tree earlier this Spring, now it's almost 4 feet tall (1.3 meters)!

It seems to be loving its new home and the polyculture it's growing in. Within a few feet of it, there are blackberries, serviceberries, other young apple trees, veggies, and lots of other wild plants growing!
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This grape vine was just a cutting a few months ago, and now it's already grown to about two feet tall!

It is super healthy and putting out new growth (the little white leaves) at every node on the plant, growing in a dense polyculture of native plants and other grape vines nearby!
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I'm loving all of the beneficial wasps that I'm seeing in the food forest, all different sizes and colors.

This caterpillar appears to have multiple wasp cocoons on its back.
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More beans in the food forest...
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This young grape vine is growing throughout a privet bush on the forest's edge.

It isn't a very large vine, but it's producing a lot of grapes for its size!

The clusters are also pretty much completely untouched by pests so far, and are looking really beautiful.

A lot of the grapes are located about 4 feet (1.3 meters) below the top canopy of the bush, and they are still ripening well.

Since this grape vine has been doing so well, I plan to use grapes and this type of bush to create a fast growing, edible privacy hedge.

I plan to start planting the majority of my grapes going forward, to trellis up other plants as a natural trellis.

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I really like the way mulberry trees look!
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Nothing like finding some tasty volunteer strawberries!
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I found what appears to be a Chlosyne nycteis, silvery checkerspot butterfly in the food forest.
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I harvested my first mulberry!

I don't think this fruit harvester was made for such small fruit, but it worked!

A very small first harvest, but still very tasty, and I was impressed with the flavor! It was sweet with a good balanced flavor.

The other one is still ripening on the tree, I hope to get a second taste test from that one too!
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A double cucumber!
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