The flow of the fall harvest is beginning! I pruned the raspberries back pretty aggressively in the food forest this summer, so there isn't going to buckets of berries. I'll be able to pick a quick snack as I walk by throughout the day. In the meantime, the raspberries are doing their job of filling in their niche in the food forest keeping other unwanted plants from growing. Instead of weeding I get to harvest tasty berries!
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quotingYoung food forest producing hundreds of pounds of food
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This is a 1/10acre food forest. It is 6 years old, and just starting to come into production. Last season it produced hundreds of pounds of food without buying any inputs. Potatoes, squash, garlic, strawberry, raspberry, gooseberry, currant, rhubarb, horseradish, hazelnut, peaches, and apples. All the weeds/prunings feed rabbits which yeild protein. At 6 years old, the production is just starting to come on. Once the system is mature it will produce much much more.
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