Dennis Bangham

This is about my suburban orchard in Southeast Huntsville.  Legacy Acre Fruit Forest.  Here are some pictures from a couple weeks ago to include the veggie garden.

I am far along in the development of my nature inspired fruit tree orchard.  I used 3 year old hardwood chips and mixed in sulfur, alfalfa pellets and other good stuff and am waiting for it to be ready to use in up potting my fruit trees (pawpaw, persimmon and jujube).   I am using beats, tillage radish and turnips as my fruit tree guild.  The idea here is these plants will rot in the ground and fertilize.  They also do a good job of keeping weeds away and providing a place for lizards and bugs.
Looks like a good year for fruits.  Pawpaw, persimmon, mulberry, Asian pears, jujube and even pineapple guava are showing fruits.  
I will up pot my current small pot trees into a rooting bag type pot that will enable the smaller roots to get established and prevent the circling of the bigger roots.
Health is taking a beating but my orchard is my clean air and exercise so I spend a lot of time out there.  Thanks to having a small tractor and golf cart as my orchard truck I can do things a little at a time, rest a bit and continue.
I named the orchard Legacy Acre Fruit Forest in Huntsville Alabama.  Facebook is LAFFHSV and email is LAFFHSV@gmail.com.  visit me
Cannot upload pictures since this is a reply so I might start another topic here.

I have been getting large piles of Wood Chips delivered for free.  The tree service drops them off the way home.
I would let the pile sit for a while and after some rain I would flip it over.  Saw steam coming out most of the time.  
After a while ( 2 to 3 years)  I noticed the chips were breaking down with out the addition of any greens.

I was very surprised to see the amount of nutrients in the soil.

Agree with Joseph.  I did 0.6 acres.  I hired a Forestry Mulcher.  Actually it was his son who did this on the weekend.  
It is a large spinning cylinder on the front of a skid steer and can completely take out trees 9 inches and smaller.  
For larger trees ask around for any wildcat loggers and trade the larger trees for stump and limb removal.  

I have been using ideas from Dr.Redhawk.  Clover, Turnip, Tillage Radish. I also add mustard since it grows so well here in the spring and fall.

From what I understand Persimmons do not grow from cuttings.  I buy rootstock from some of the universities and graft.

This pile started out 2+ years ago as wood chips.  Given rain, time and a small tractor I was able to get it broken down into where I can add clover and winter pea.  

Here is a university site for all things Jujube.  https://jujube.nmsu.edu/  

I am growing all the different kinds of Diospyrus kaki and viriginiana.  I have a couple trees producing right now. Prok and Early Jewel.  Both of them I find on the ground and they are very sweet.  My non-astringent varieties are not ripe yet and there is still a couple months before first frost.

William Bronson wrote: Sifting it and mixing it with alfalfa was what I thought of immediately.
With the huge amount you have, and because it can already grow weeds, I wonder you could sift, fill a bed with that sifted material and plant it with inoculated legumes, thus gowing your nitrogen into your potting soil.

I would like to keep it in piles to conserve space.  I should be able to flatten them out but they would still be 3 foot tall.