Jim Fry

Stone Garden Farm & Museum. Richfield, Ohio. Lots of gardens & orchards. Lots of animals, including sheep, milk cows, beef, pigs, rabbits, dogs, chickens, ducks, cats, many border collies. Large Farm School/homeschool, 40 kids. Lots of our own kids. Farm Share once a week for public. Raw milk for public. One of the larger museums/villages in Ohio, in a period 1820 to 1900. Heritage classes, such as soap making, baking, herbs, animal husbandry, fermentation, lots more. Cuyahoga Valley National Park just down the hill from us. Other parks, within minutes, in every direction surrounding us. Cabins and other accommodations available. We have a very full and fairly busy life. A number of folks here now. We don't charge to be here. We are Blessed and like to pass it along. We've had hundreds of wwoof'ers and others over the years. www.stonegardenfarm.com. www.ohiofarmmuseum.com. www.farmschoolohio.com. www.johnbrownohio.com.

Next tour, this coming Saturday, June 13th, 2026. www.stonegardenfarm.com.

1). Looks like rabbit damage.
2). Unlikely they will grow back as original apple.
3). Unlikely to have a good trunk foundation.
And so on.

Time is far more valuable than the tree. The attempt to save a tree that has already failed may be a waste of time. Go out and get a new tree, with good roots and good trunk and good size. And save several years of time. Have apples sooner. Probably end up with a better tree. My experience is that you will regret trying to save money instead of saving time.

I don't know, I've never counted them. Probably at least twenty or so. Maybe thirty. Maybe more. I just know there's at least one in every shop we have.

We have so many people that come here. It's interesting. Some get bit too heck, others the bugs don't bother at all. For us, much of it has to do with how a person smells. Some smells attract mosquitos, some do not. Figure out what works for you, and you will have far less of a problem. ~~You might try eating some garlic, to start.

Ohio has an extremely helpful law. Agritourism. ~Own land, do some farming/gardening, allow others to come on your land for farm activity, few usual governing rules apply to you. "Allowing" people on your land can be as simple as selling eggs to folks who drive in. If you are an Agritourism "farm", most basically, the only rules that get enforced are: Don't build structures withing 20 ft. of the neighbor's line fence. Have an approved septic system. You can otherwise build what you want, do what you want. Ohio Agritourism Law. Look it up. You'll like it. ---Suggestion. Get together with Chris McC and come visit here. We're in Richfield, 1 hour south of Burton, 2 hours north of Columbus. We're one of the oldest intentional communities in the U.S. We do organic/permaculture/biodynamic gardening. And we have one of the largest museums in Ohio. 1820 to 1900.

Writing about the old days sounds fun. And worthwhile. Here's a couple more, ...

Findhorn (sort of the start of it all) N. Scotland. Eileen & Peter Caddy and Dorothy Maclean. 1962. They really got things eco. moving in the U.K. People from all over the world journeyed to learn from them. Read the early books, not so much what has been written more recently. If you really want to understand working with Earth, they are the ones to learn from.

Helen and Scott Nearing got married in 1947, and started their Forest Farm, in Vermont, shortly after. They published their book 'Living the Good Life' in 1954. It became one of the most important books of the 1970's for all us hippies. They are the American organic/perm grandparents of us all.

Raven Rocks, Ohio. 1970. Started out with 19 younger folks. The original intent, (and still is) was to preserve a really beautiful and dramatic eco. landscape. Eventually most of the 1,200 acres will go to permanent protection. They have done some really neat very ecological projects over the years.

Black Bear Ranch, N. Calif. 1968. Really interesting place. My understanding is that it is still (sort of) chugging along. Quite a leftist community in its day.

~~There's another that wasn't really a community. But it functioned like one. Thousands (and thousands) of people from all over the world traveled to Twylah Nitsch's land, and The Wolf Clan Teaching Lodge. Non-family people were always living there, but they mostly came to learn. Twylah was the Granddaughter of the last of The Great Seneca Medicine Men. She knew more than anyone else on the continent of the Old Ways. ~Ancient Traditional Wisdom & Prophesy. She was quite the incredible person.

--One thing about a number of these. They were friends with the Fairies and Faeries, and Big Foot and Little People. There are whole other worlds that most folks don't seem to know about, -or even deny. It's too bad. (It's actually something I've been a bit at odds about, with this group here. There seem to be quite a few (management type) people who somewhat actively oppose recognizing or talking about Nature Spirits and such.) You'd have to be willing to talk/write about such things in order to really understand these communities.