marcus wojcik

I am planning to construct a food forest on some land. One of the people who lived there was an avid shooter, owning many guns and shooting often, to the extent that I have found hundreds of shells from his guns in the soil. I am wondering whether it is a bad option to bother putting energy into cultivating on land that has been contaminated with an unknown but presumably high concentration of lead.

Any input is greatly appreciated, thanks.

yes the hill is north facing, thanks for the advice

hey, this is my first post on this forum, hows it going?

I am here to ask advice on a idea I had recently. I have a 40 acre property in NSW, Australia, in a temperate to sub-tropical climate. I was thinking of planting some trees and I have a few things to take into account:

the area I will be planting on is a hill, and there is occasional light frost in winter, with the temperature on rare occasions going as low as -1 degrees celsius.

I had an idea to dig into the hill, making circles as large as the drip-line of the trees at maturity, and digging these maybe half a metre down, so i have flat circles cut into the side of the hill. I will line the circles with bricks made of stones that absorb a lot of heat and plant the tree in the middle surrounded by companion plants like comfrey and pinto peanut etc.

The idea behind this is to trap heat with the stones and shelter the plants from frost, as well as trapping water in a kind of 'well', and also making it easier to harvest fruit as the tree will be planted lower down .

is this a good idea? any input is appreciated

cheers