Hello all. My family took the plunge for a lot of reasons. I will be posting up a lot of questions soon about all the issues related to taking care of this
land and bringing diversity and life back to it. Just wanted to say hi from Days Creek/ Canyonville OR on our
permaculture small homestead farm in progress. Here is a tentative very broad schedule of what we are hoping to do off the top of my head:
Year 1) Learn as much as I can about the land, weather, community, wildlife, and vegetation in the area. Think on the different
permaculture zones from the house outwards. Get some garden boxes going for fall crops. Get some sheep (4-6 to start) and
chickens (8-12) to start mowing the grass in a rotational paddock system (about 2 usable acres). Plan out the
water systems of ponds and swales. Have the
local soil and water district pro to review my plans.
Year 2) Implement small
pond and
hugelkultur (had to google the spellling) bed by our shallow well (help with low water levels during peak droughts?). Start planting some vigourous
trees along the
fence lines perhaps? Develop a game plan for keeping the
deer from killing the fruit forests (bone sauce?) before they get established. Get some
bees.
Year 3) Implement larger ponds (gleying with pigs?), swales,
permaculture fruit forests. Build some
hugelkultur beds. Maybe add a couple of goats to the rotating paddocks to help keep blackberries in check.
I will try add photos along with my guesses on plant identification as I am starting out.
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