Needed to share. Behold in all its tiny glory, the very first harvest from my new homestead. We are calling this year a transition year as we are moving in at a time that allows for very little gardening or production for this year in either our old home our our new adventure. There are several highbush and wild blueberry bushes on the new property which will allow us to at least dream of things to come. This and the next few weeks of blueberry harvest will be frozen with a final destination of a blueberry sour ale to be brewed later in the summer. While taking this year off of basically all permaculture/homesteading aspects of life is depressing, we are able to sit back and see what the property has to give us before we start reconfiguring it's landscape. Plans for the big vegetable garden, orchard and mini food forest are swirling in my head with each passing day.
A couple months from now I will be sipping a refreshing blueberry ale while reviewing the notes I am compiling on sun pattern, existing plant life, wildlife, wet/dry areas, and much more. Cheers to new beginnings!
Woohoo congrats, may they be the first of many! I look forward to seeing what you make with them. Good luck to you as you make plans for new beginnings, and a big RI hi-five from a former crusty quahog!
We started planting some 10 years ago when I asked for blueberry plants rather than anniversary flowers. We planted them around our small home which really helped with reducing the pressure from bird theft. Now we have about 12 bushes of 4 different varieties and ages and this years harvest looks to be approaching 60 pounds.
If you have free ranging chickens on your homestead, make sure to contain them during blueberry season. They will even gobble green berries. That was a painful year…
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