Evan Byrne

According to the USDA plant database there are some screwbean Mesquite's in the valley floor where the water table is around 6ft. The low total rainfall along with almost no summer rain may be why they have trouble establishing.

Heres my 3rd Vlog, I plant some trees and talk about my variety selection process. Enjoy and give me a comment!

Here's my second Vlog. Not a whole lot in this one, I talk more about the farm design, permaculture principles and zoning.

Thanks Bruce. Fortunately ground water is extremely abundant where I am located. I have a 200ft deep well with static water at 25ft and 90gpm of flow. I am located in the deepest valley in the continental US and there is an incredible amount of recharge entering the aquifer every year from snow melt off of the Sierra. I will obviously be irrigating the cultivated areas, but I plan to experiment with trying to establish some mesquite trees with drip irrigation that I will eventually remove if I can get their roots into the water table.

Hey everyone,

I'm building a farm from scratch in the high desert of California and I'm going to be making videos of the entire process so I thought I'd make a post here.
I'm in zone 8a, 4500ft and 6" of annual rainfall. I'm going to be using a combination of typical market farming and permaculture principles.
I'll be separating my field blocks with 15' wide perennial/tree guilds with fruit trees, nitrogen fixing pioneer trees and shrubs, berry bushes and native ground cover species.
The farm is going to be run off of solar exclusively, I just installed a Grundfos SQFlex solar pump that I'll be powering off ground-mounted solar.

This video is a bit long, I'll try to make future videos shorter and more to the point. Give me a comment!