Hi everyone.
I'm beginning the attempt to make our Central Florida property more self-sufficient and need some help determining best layout. Here's what we current have. The property slopes down from the road, moreso as you go further back. Image is pretty much north/south. Two garden areas near the front, and currently a row of fruit trees along the driveway. We have a few more baby fruit trees around the oaks in the middle and a few further back. I'd like to add more fruit trees, a bunch of blackberries and I don't yet know what else. Any good ideas on how to lay this out best? Eventually I'd like to get a mini dairy cow so would like to be able to fence off more field by the round pen so the paddock's grass doesn't get overeaten. Total is about 3 acres I think.
Hi Shelley, I love what you’re trying to accomplish there.
If I were starting over the first thing I would do is get a sun tracking app and go from there. I would have planted much differently early on if I’d have had a better idea about the sun’s coverage.
add a hedge to the existing fence along the fence line, Maybe some cattle fodder trees used.
earthworks,
swales, berms, rock swales,
Improving seed banks.
building up the drive way above the natural ground level with some fluming pipes under.
You can look up road design online, its pretty simple concepts to learn or just mimic.
A couple ponds,
Are some ideas,
Regards,
Alex
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