Kevin from the DeRidder, LA area here. Have been interested in the concept of Permaculture since I first heard about it a couple of years ago. I recently bought an old 10 acre homeplace that had a lot of neglected plantings of pear, persimmon, blueberry, grapefruit, peach, plum, fig and some muscadine. It hadn't been tended in a long time and needed a lot of work and I've cleared/cleaned up a lot of the underbrush and trimmed up the trees that were left. I really want to implement Permaculture techniques as much as possible on the whole 10 acres and am in the learning phase of this....so I really don't have a plan yet on what I'm going to do to the property. It's gently sloping with good drainage, lots of big oak trees dispersed around the property and surrounded by planted pines on 3 sides....and of course the "orchard" areas that were there when I bought it/moved there.
I would welcome any design ideas on what works and what doesn't in our area. This is going to be a long term project for me, but I need a plan.
