So grateful for my food forest this year!

Life has gotten in the way of a lot of things this year and one of the casualties was my annual garden. I got a few tomatoes and peppers but that's it. But we are still able to get a lot of food nonetheless, all thanks to my perennial plants and minimal weeding that had allowed for things to self seed.

I was feeling so bad about not getting seeds started and in the ground but then things started fruiting and ripening anyway! Berries and fruit, herbs and self-seeded lettuce and onions.

Thank you.  This is such an important post.

Your gratitude for what you have right now, in this moment, is an encouragement and an inspiration.   Your post demonstrates for me just what food forests are meant to be.  Once established, even in infancy (like mine) they provide.  They provide when we can't do what we want to do.

About once a year I get "garden-discouraged" about what died, what I did wrong, what I didn't accomplish.  Shortly thereafter, the gratitude lands.  I'm bookmarking your post so I can head off the discouragement part and plunge straight into gratitude.

Thanks again, and enjoy the harvest.

This is a great year for fruit and berries in the Pacific North-west and I'm doing my best to harvest and preserve what's currently ripe. I'm trying hard to feel the "grateful" part, and I'm sure I'll feel it this winter when I use the "fruits of my labor", but alas, at the moment I'm looking at trees and shrubs with fruit that will ripen in weeks or a month and am already trying to figure out how I'll manage!

Note to self: when I go to the raspberry patch this morning, take an extra container for the last of the Black Currents that are smelling wonderful, but weren't quite ripe the last time I was aiming to pick Currents.