Peach tree underplanted with lemon balm and yarrow
Dion lays out our first garden beds with reliable low-tech precision
Our first garden beds under construction, fall 2019
Building our first garden beds following the contours of the land
Contoured garden beds slowing and spreading water after a heavy rain
Neighborhood kids Zephyr and Noah plant our first garlic crop, fall 2019
Asako inoculates a new garden bed with winecap spawn
Winecap fruiting amongst vegetables, summer 2020
Winecap harvest, summer 2020
A winter forest walk with local kids
A polyculture of vegetables in our first year, summer 2020
Polyculture of annual vegetables in our first year
A section of forest garden being established in 2020
Peach tree with emerging understory in spring 2021
Summer 2021. The same peach tree as the previous image with an understory of lemon balm, yarrow, comfrey, sage, oregano, black currant, anise hyssop, strawberry, winter savory, sorrel...
The forest garden yields its first peaches!
Firewood stacked holzhausen style
A young eleuthero shrub, one of the many medicinal plants growing in our young forest garden
Black raspberries are one of a number of wild fruits being incorporated into the forest garden
A young Carparthian walnut planted into the forest edge
Black aronia surrounded by sorrel, feverfew, oregano and bunching onions
Black aronia (Aronia melanocarpa) fruiting
American persimmon seedling
Noah and Dion construct a rocket stove for cooking
A view of the Wyldewoods forest and fields
A view of the pond with the Catskill mountains in the background
A grape being trained into a young black locust tree
Asako getting a batch of biochar going
Fruit and nut trees and shrubs planted at the edge where forest becomes forest garden
Perennial plantings re-emerging in spring 2021
An area of forest garden being mulched and planted
New garden beds under construction in fall 2020
New garden beds in full production, summer 2021
Strawberries, oregano, haskap and orpine growing beneath a pear tree
Black locust flowers - a superb wild food and yet one more wonderful gift from this immensely useful species
Amish paste tomatoes growing wth flowers and herbs
Annual vegetables and herbs
A stand of sunchokes
Groundcover of strawberry, winter savory and purslane
peas, oats, garlic, kale...spring 2021
Young hybrid chestnut
Peppermint growing beneath a black locust
Polyculture of lemon grass, molokhia, eggplant and komatsuna
parsnips, kale, cabbage, tomatoes, lots of flowers....
A summer harvest for dinner