Warren Billings

Hello,

I live on a 1/4 acre lot with lots of maples and oak. I am super appreciative of their leaves, but am overwhelmed with the sheer quantity of leaves they drop each fall.

I am trying to find more ways to use the leaves and how to decompose them faster. So far I am shredding them and putting them in piles and mulching the garden beds with them.

Does anyone know of a fungus I could purchase/find that I could inoculate my leaf mold with to make it decompose faster?

Does anyone know of another good use for all these leaves? There are so many!

Thank you,
Warren

Nice, thank you for your advice! I just started talking to Help Yourself, really good people. Link here: http://commongreen.weebly.com/ I will check out Boston Food Forest Coalition too, thanks!

Hi All!

This year my family and I are getting serious about designing and implementing a full forest garden. We have had success with hugelkulturs and other permaculture projects, but have moved and are now ready to invest a lot of time and energy. I have been really into permaculture for the last eight years.

The site is about a 1/4 acre and mostly shady. There are sunny spots that are almost full sun, and plenty of partial sun. Zone 5b/6a in Massachusetts. I am talking with a non-profit organization that partially funds local food forests to be made publicly accessible.

I am going to make a species matrix on chart paper that includes sun and water needs. I will attach that when I finish it. It should be much easier to read than this picture... sorry about that.

I am looking for all the help in the world :) Mainly, what guilds do you guys see here? What plants should definitely be planted together?

Thank you!
Warmly,
Warren

This looks very efficient:

Even better - imagine a loading dock where you could do the splitting and then push them all off the side onto a trailer/wagon for transport.

I love permies.com!