chrissy bauman

suburban permaculture food forest with ponds, on 2/10 of an acre but this is just the backyard so less than 1/10th.
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are the tomato plants your are growing so yellow because they aren't getting enough of a nutrient or because the roots are a little bit too warm in your raised beds? also are you testing the ph of your leachate? love the compost leachate idea. a little bit of a mosquito dunk will kill all the mosquito  larvae without harming the plants. of course, a 25 cent goldfish will also kill the mosquito larvae without harming the plants.
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As for what you can grow indoors even in the cold weather, you should try azolla. I have also successfully fed my rabbits many members of the tradescantia family including wandering jew, Purple Heart, and Spiderwort, which can be grown indoors. I have successfully sprouted Dent Corn from tractor supply, its pretty good when I tried it myself. By the way you can't pop Dent Corn.

As for what I grow for my rabbits, I live in the super deep south. They enjoy
Mulberry, loquat, Pear, Turks Cap Hibiscus, chinese Hibiscus, Mexican sunflower, Mexican Sage, Swamp Sage, shell ginger, false Cardamom ginger, shampoo ginger, small Leaved tradescantia, spiderwort, Purple Heart, cannas,  Mexican creeper, lemon, tangerine, American beautyberry, water hyacinth, water spinach, Papyrus, yellow nuts edge, Crabgrass, Bahia, Agave, Sago Palm, Spanish Needle, Perennial Peanut, sweet potato leaves, roses, any squash I can sprout up like pumpkins leftover from halloween, and many more. They also quite enjoy crusts from uneaten peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and orange and banana peels.

If they are fed GMO food, and you catch them and quarantine them and feed them your good food for a few days, by the time the quarantine is completed you have (kind of) non GMO birds. For free.

Wow thank you William! No it's not invasive. It's an edible groundcover that's utilizing empty spaces. Now that I know it's a tradescantia I feel even better about it. I regularly feed spiderwort and Moses in a boat to the rabbits. I may have to bring this smaller variety to other spots to propagate it there instead of having useless ferns.
Awesomeness!
-Chrissy
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    This is growing as a ground over that I didn't plant all over my backyard here in West Florida. It prefers shade, it requires no additional watering. It has fleshy leaves that feel smooth and shiny and no hairs. I have never seen flowers on it. It sends runners that readily root.
Thanks.
Also it is edible for the rabbits.
-Chrissy
Http://KnottyPots.blogspot.com

    When I was young, I was lost. I went from homelessness and crappy job to rented apartments and crappy jobs. Then homelessness again. It was almost cyclical. Then I discovered healthcare, which is rewarding challenging and always has overtime. I worked my tail off as a paramedic making nothing to save for a downpayment on a small house, which is now paid off. Its only 3/10ths of an acre, but despite my best efforts I have only managed to plant pond and rabbit up about half the place. Its not really about the amount of space that you have, but what are doing with it. In this area it is all about how much you are willing to irrigate. And fruit trees need to be managed often, or the squirrels and birds get it all before you will!
    Earlier this year I paid $7k for an acre and a half of unimproved woods in a failed housing division away from the city. Compared to the amount of land I have now, it's huge. I am saving to put in a manual well, then I will need to put up fencing. In the meantime I have propagating my favorite edibles to be transplanted out there, but only the tough ones. And have picked out a place for a shelter snd solar shower. The land was cheap but its an hours drive away. And I bet something like that exists near you too.

I love all of your ideas and I have quite enjoyed reading your plans.
I am sure you have already read the pamphlet regarding tropical agriculture from ECHO, it showcases many of your aforementioned ideas.
https://www.echocommunity.org/resources/f11a5d31-a76c-4851-83c3-06baf3a62c0e
I love that you plan on growing and using azolla. I, too, am a huge fan. The azolla that I grew extremely successfully in my pond was completely devastated by invading frogs. If i get azolla again ever, which I may because it was well-loved by my rabbits, I will keep a seed amount in reserve in case of predators again.
What I have switched over to in my ponds is water hyacinth, which is eaten fairly well by the rabbits, though they wont even consider eating the roots of it. It also grows extremely well here in West Florida and is not nearly as invasive as it is made out to be. Its also easy to harvest and carry to the rabbits and has an excellent protein rating. But you already knew that.
As on your planned property, roughage here is pretty easy to acquire. I too grow sugar cane, and deal with mineral poor soils. The seaweed idea is a great one. I may have to start doing that myself! I recently acquired some elephant grass, it seems to be as nutritious or perhaps moreso than corn, but I understand you may want the corn for its human/chicken value also. Have you considered sorghum or kefir? Both are grown quite a bit here, sorghum doubling as a molasses source. Not sure if that would be better than sugarcane at all, since its so easy to grow and the others would require planting regularly. But would certainly add to diversity.
I grow a lot of different types of gingers, which have roughage value for my rabbits and a great deal of edibilty and medicinal uses for humans. My favorites are cardamom ginger and shell ginger (Alpinia zerumbet), the latter of which is considered a superfood and called "Langkawas na pula" in its native Phillipines. Maybe your wife has heard of it! It thrives with no care and near full shade and would pair well with any banana ventures.
I also grow, eat, and feed to rabbits cannas, which taste great but are heavy feeders. These might be a pond edge plant which can grow a decent starchy tuber to compete with your cassavas. The tubers do need to be cooked first also, but lack the cyanide. Cannas also have a variety of beautiful flowers which may have cut value or potted plant resale value for your booth.
I cant wait to see pictures.

Is that purple flowered plant on the left of the succulent rosette a stand of Veronica spicata? If it is, it has some medicinal properties. I have some here growing nonnatively on my scrub forest new property here in west Florida (think long hot dry springtime and hot rainy fall.) If i had your land i would dig the compost pits -have had a lot of success with sunken beds and mulched pathways.

I have had great success with Salvia fulgens (Cardinal sage), Agave americana (Century plant) and Opuntia spp. (prickly pear cacus). All can handle heat and dry and no care, and are edible. My rabbits love them! Ok...so they dont eat the prickly pear too much. But they will eat the Agaves with no trouble. I plan on the future ability to bring a cartrunkload of manure to the property and bring home a trunkload of growies for the rabbits. Plus camping, frisbee golf, and scorpion hunting for the kids. On a lot less land than yours.

I would be interested to learn what was natively being grown to eat there - maize? cactus?

The pink fuzzy wilflower was in the Weeki Wachee Preserve and the purple fuzzy wildflower came along with a fig tree from the Nature Coast Botanical Gardens, so both are from West Florida.