Growing a Micro Woodland

I'm trying to grow a a bunch of trees in a 4x30 strip of land.
This is along the southern fence line, in the shadow of the house next door.

I'm hoping to grow biomass here, things I can turn in to biochar and further compost.
Food is secondary at best.

So far I've transplanted in locusts, black cap raspberries, rose of Sharon, box elder,  and  catawba.
I've collected and "planted"  hedge apples, persimmons and Kentucky Coffee Trees pods.
The bed is filled with autumn leaves, twigs, branches, and chunks of wood.
It will receive infusions of urine and weed tea over this winter.
I have also added  rotting pumpkins, fermented tomato seeds and over ripe cucumbers.
I will be adding sunchokes, rasberries, blackberries,potatoes,  true yams, sweet potatoes and  gobo root, all things I have close at hand.
I will be trying to start mulberry, locust and pear cuttings in this same bed.

Suggestions for things I can add to the bed are welcome.
Free or cheap options preferred!

I was reshaping a pear tree in my backyard and ended up with lots of branches to take cuttings from.
I considered taking them over to the yarden and attempting to start them there, but I decided they would do better in zone 1.

I've used bags over my cuttings in the past, but my recent reading has convinced me to skip any moisture retention  for dormant cuttings.

Excellent project! I will be interested to hear how it grows. Have you had good success with peach cuttings in the past?

I have a similar narrow strip that's also partly shaded by the neighbours' garage and hen house, along the main entrance path from the front gate to my house. I want to make it more productive and also hide the ugly view. So far I have just scratched the ground and thrown in some locally collected hazelnut and elderberry seeds along with prayers and hope. I haven't watered or done anything to improve the soil yet due to lack of time there plus unavailability of much that would be helpful to amend the soil with at this stage.  

This will be a full-time home someday, but for now it's 7-10 day visits a few times a year, so whatever grows there will need to look after itself for now!

I have started killed many kinds of cuttings, but not peach, not yet anyway!
I suspect this particular neighbor of actively killing my trees, so I'm loath to plant anything that costs me money .


My  next set of cuttings will come from my backyard pollarded mulberry.
There will be so many of them, I'll be free to try every method I can think of.

Dormant cuttings seem to have a very  high risk to reward ratio.
Even if only a 10th of these cuttings take, the effort will have been worth it.

Ugh! That is not the sort of neighbor you need!

True on the cuttings. I have killed plenty, but the return on time invested is so positive, sticking in some cuttings is always worth trying. I didn't know peach cuttings would take. The yellow peach tree on my place self-seeds prolifically and I scattered some fallen fruit around where new trees would work well. But would a cutting grown tree fruit sooner?