posted 3 years ago
Would love to hear about what you actually want from the land, your favorite produce/nuts/vegetable/meats, do you like hunting/fishing, who you will entertain, how much land you have, do you mind clear cutting it, how much time/money/labor you have to throw at the solution. But below are a few ideas that I am putting out there.
Foundation
Site Clearing
Earthworks and the related Waterworks/Irrigation (Swales, Terrace, Huglekulture, etc)
Carbon Amendments (biochar, woodchip, straw, compost, etc)
Mineral Amendments (sea90, gypsum/limestone, phosphorus, etc)
Soil life Amendments (mushroom slurry, compost, aerated compost tea, pond water, etc)
Cover Crop/Support Species (80% legumes & 20% grass+others: dutch clover, fava beans, clovers, daikon/tillage radish, pasture mix)
Maintenance Plan
Foliar Spray (Chitin Aerated Tea with worm compost, pond/aquarium water, EM, milk kefir, mushroom slurry)
Mowing (weeding, chop and drop, etc)
Pruning
Harvesting
Preparation/Preservation
Rotational Grazing
Garden: (1/4 acres, double dig, huge starting inputs of compost, biochar, etc)
40% of area Caloric Roots (Potatoes, Sweet Potatoes, Garlic, Onion, Parsnips, Turnip, Radish, Rutabaga, Salsify, Burdock)
Soil Fertility Plants (Corn/Grains, Fava beans, Sunflower, Jerusalem Artichoke, etc)
Squash Family (squash, watermelon, cantaloupe, etc)
Tomato Family (tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, etc)
Herbs (Mint/Thyme Family, Leeks/Chive Family, Celery/Cilantro Family, etc)
Greens (Lettuce/Dandelion, Spinach/Amaranth Family, Cabbage/Kale Family, etc), maybe greenhouse
Misc (exotics, oyster & winecap mushroom colonizing the walkway, etc)
Animal: (1/3 acre + more for cow/sheep/goat)
Bee Hive (4+ hives, so that you can split and replace the 50% that die)
Chicken (2 layers per person, and 6boiler/person/3months)
Rabbit (6meat rabbit/person/3months)
Fish (1/4 acre fertilized pond giving 100lbs/year)
Dwarf Milk Goat (2 per acre, 9 per acre buying winter feed, rotational grazing with 30day rest)
Cow (8 acres per 1000lbs cow-calf animal unit, buying winter feed = 3acres vs 8acres, rotational grazing with 30day rest)
Orchard: (1acre+, 180 trees/acre on 15ft centers)
25% Nuts (mostly hazelnut, yellowhorn, walnut family, chestnut, etc)
25% Nitrogen Fixers (edible: goumi, silverberry, seaberry, etc; others:dutch white clover, adler, etc)
25% Non-Rose Family (Pawpaw, Persimmon, Mulberry, Figs, Elderberry, Gooseberry, blueberry, jujube, vines:grapes/kiwi/akebia, etc)
25% Rose Family (apple, pear, quince, medlar, juneberry, aronia; plums, apricots, peach, cherry, almond; blackberry, raspberry, strawberry, etc)
Outside Living: (1/5 acre inclusive of house)
Kitchen: Grill, Dehydration Station, Canning Station, Rocket Stove, Rocket Oven, Butchering
Dining Area: Table
Lounging Area: Fireplace, Sofa
Lawn: Dogs, People
Natural Pool (optional)
Mech Area: Workshop, Solar Electric/Thermal, Heat Pump, Septic, Well, etc
Woodlot/Mushroom/Wild: (optional)
Pollard/Coppice Hybrid Poplar
Iterations are fine, we don't have to be perfect
My 2nd Location:Florida HardinessZone:10 AHS:10 GDD:8500 Rainfall:2in/mth winter, 8in/mth summer, Soil:Sand pH8 Flat