It’s been a while since we last updated…and there’s a lot to update on. We’ll start with the food forest. In winter last year we were lucky enough to obtain over 100 fruit and nut trees from a friends farm. These included different varieties of pecans, almonds, mangos, peaches, plums, cherries, finger limes, cherry guavas, figs and more.

We created the food forest on the patch that we had previously built up as garlic beds and then pig pens. The pigs did a great job of digging up the weeds and grass and fertilizing the area. Here’s the transformation from a dirt patch to the food forest! Most of the trees were bare rooted (dormant in winter and have no leaves) so it looked like we were just planting twigs. But as spring and summer hit and the leaves grew, our food forest started taking shape.

Pumpkins, watermelons and zuchinni started popping up everywhere thanks to the pigs dropping seeds all over the place.

The peaches surprised us with some early fruit. We certainly weren’t expecting any fruit this summer so it was pretty exciting. We can’t wait to see what they produce over the next few years.