“Guess which side of the fence is mine” game…

Saw Nancy’s post below in another thread and thought it would be cool to see your most striking property line.  I’ll be taking my photo in a bit, but thought I would kick it off with Nancy’s photo.  I hope she doesn’t mind!

Nancy Reading wrote:



Guess which side of the fence is mine!

Alright, here is mine…

This is the right of way area we and the neighbor maintain along the extended property line. Grass was cut on the same day.

A road divides one side of my farm from a neighbors farm. The pictures below are from another thread here about managing pastures. The picture below was taken a couple years ago in the middle of November.

This isn't quite what the game is. A neighbor abused a piece of land by dumping a lot of subsoil fill and then compacting it, and then ignoring it. He wanted to sell the parcel of land that included this abused area (maybe 1/2 acre of a 5 acre treed parcel). We didn't want someone buying the parcel, building a huge house and cutting down most or all of the trees, as we're dependent on a well, so Hubby used his inheritance to buy the parcel.

So I'm posting Picture 1 and Picture 2 and you get to guess which is the one where I've already "helped" Mother Nature fix the soil and which is still on my very long ToDo list.

What’s the first thing y’all would do to a property to get this contrast picture? We’re new land owners and don’t live on it yet so I haven’t done too much to it but am looking at how to harness the rainwater now.

Rebecca, congratulation on the new land.

Wood chips and mushrooms would be my suggestions.

Then begin making compost.

Next would be to read the Soil Series:

https://permies.com/wiki/redhawk-soil

This game might be to easy lol. My one neighbor keeps his property over stocked with cattle, my other neighbor is a conventional grain farmer. So both have land that is treated vastly different than how my side of the fence is treated.

Gray Henon wrote:Saw Nancy’s post below in another thread and thought it would be cool to see your most striking property line.  I’ll be taking my photo in a bit, but thought I would kick it off with Nancy’s photo.  I hope she doesn’t mind!

Nancy Reading wrote:



Guess which side of the fence is mine!

I don't mind Gray! I've been here about 14 years now, and sometimes I forget what it was like before - an overgrazed sheep monoculture. That's what stops the trees regenerating on the hills here as well - those and the deer. We're never that cold and the hills aren't high enough to be treeless really, although they are peat bogs at the top, so not great for trees either.
This bit is the windy side so the trees have struggled a bit to get established, but now they are providing shelter and I am introducing more fruit bushes, letting the raspberries go wild. You can see the blackcurrant growing nicely - strangely it doesn't seem to mind the wind much.
My challenge at the moment to to get a little vegetable growing area started, but the soil is much more compacted than I thought and it's taking a bit of work!