Hi All,
I've recently purchased property (deal just closed!) in Southern New Brunswick (Zone 5a/b). I'm looking for examples of other folks who have planted food forests in similar climates (so far I've seen Trevor Philps on here and found the website for the
Falls Brooks Centre in Knowlesville NB but I'm interested in seeing as many examples as I can.
I'm hoping to learn what kinds of crops/trees/etc people are planting in their food forests and kitchen gardens and how people are integrating greenhouses into their systems. How are our winters affecting you and your crops and how do you mitigate those affects? How and what are you storing during the winter? My Family has been in the atlantic provinces since long before the world wars and the industrialization of this part of the world so I'm familiar with what they would have done, but they weren't cultivating 'food forests' exactly.
Regarding food forests I'm interested in examples of food forests being created out of what is already healthy woodland...which is what my property is. Most of the stuff I've seen assumes a certain amount of rehabilitation of former monoculture farming or pasture OR at least has large cleared areas (
Geoff Lawton for example). I have NO cleared space except a few small meadows and wetlands and would love to know how others with similar properties proceeded with transforming it into a productive and abundant food forest.
I'm fairly new to this whole idea of
permaculture though not to rural life, hunting/fishing, off grid living and low tech systems. I am not a gardener...yet...and this is where I'm hoping to get some advice and see some examples.
Aquaculture in our cold climate anyone?
I thought I'd start here since much of this is a call for regional examples BUT i will be reposting some of my specific questions from in here, onto their appropriate forums..Somebody tell me if that's a superfluous cross post and
should be avoided.
THANKS!!!
j