What if? What if you went outside and had an entire grocery store at your finger tips? What if you could leave this backyard grocery store to your kids as your legacy? And and and what if this backyard grocery store just kept getting better every. single. year. What if?
You can totally have this! No matter the size of your property, no matter your location in the world. This is available to you. It's called Permaculture and it is a way of designing your property after nature. Nature takes care of itself. Contrary to popular belief, the squirrels are not out there bagging up the leaves as compost. No the trees and forest composts all on its own! Provides all the nutrients back into the soil to regenerate new growth every single year. More diversity. More output. More bio-activity, sooner in the ditches and woods than in most farm fields these days. Take a look next time you're out for a drive. I bet you by now the ditches have grasses 2 feet tall and the forests are fully leafed out, and the farm field is still pretty much bare.
That's because how we grow our food today is not the most efficient for the earth and our natural resources. No it is most efficient to the equipment that is used in the fields. This way of modern agriculture uses more water resources and more chemicals than ever before and really burdens our natural systems.
Permaculture offers a new way of growing our food. One that regenerates the land. Another name for it is Regenerative Agriculture. The soil becomes healthier and healthier every year. There is more life in the soil, which in turn makes more nutrients available for the plants to uptake. Creating more nutrient rich foods. And leading to healthier humans who eat these foods.
It is literally a win-win. Here in Alaska, I'm working on my third food forest. My first two were in a little town in northern Minnesota. If they can grow bananas in the Rocky Mountains utilizing Permaculture concepts, then I can grow my fruit orchards in Alaska.
Rhubarb does exceptionally well here in Southeast Alaska.
Slowly but surely we are covering the mud with food plants. Here are wild Alaskan Blueberry buses along our fence. In the foreground are our fruit trees. So far we have cherries and apples.
These strawberries originate from an island in the Pacific Ocean called Shelter Island.
These blackberries also originate from Southeast Alaska. Born and bred to handle the extreme weather we get here.
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