Check out some of the photos of the students in action during October’s food forest course. The students from this course designed and planted a new food forest for Chickens and Humans to enjoy near our new community building.
During the first week we learnt about food forests, food forest design and drawing to scale maps. We worked in our winter garden inside our food forest and planted an edible hedge row.
During the second week, we learnt all about plants, trees, guilds and polycultures, we pruned, propagated and and spent time working in our existing food forest
In the third week we finalize the design for the chicken food forest and started preparing the land by digging a swale, put up fencing, composting, preparing mulch and digging holes for trees.
In the last week we planted the food forest and installed irrigation.
On the last two days we all had a go at natural building
Sun Rise on our ‘One Tree Hill’
Plants propagated and ready to plant
New chick is born on the farm
Classroom
Working in the winter garden
Books, design tools and Course booklet ready for the course
Great healthy food every day
Weeding the salad garden
Working in our existing food forest
Compositing worms workshop
Measuring the land to draw a design
Practicing drawing a to scale map
Fresh food from a local organic farmer
Back to eden gardening method, gardening with wood chips
Vemicomosting workshop
Seeds of grains and cover crops ready to plant in the future food forest
Rotavating hard ground to pant cover crops to loosen the soil, fix nitrogen and to collect seeds to feed to chickens
Clearing around existing trees
Map, drawn, trees cut out to scale and ready to design the food forest
Designing the food forest
Above is the Terra one food forest full of guilds and polycultures in 2018, below is the same terrace when we had it planted with annuals
Propagating plants via cuttings
Amazing food every day
Finalising the chicken food forest design
The final design for the food forest we then planted
Measuring a swale on contour
Digging a swale and making it level all the way along
Preparing to plant trees
Moving the chiken tractor daily and then planting seeds direct in the ready beds
Mixing compost and soil for olanting the trees in the food forest
Photo from inside of the chicken house of a compost pile being flipped
Finished putting up a fence around the food forest
Planting the food forest
Propagating herbs through devision and layering for the new food forest
New food forest nearly ciompletly planted
Planting a ground cover in the food forest
One huge bunch of thyme ready to split and plant
Planting trees
Working on irrigation for the new food forest
The salad garden
Last planting in the food forest
Planting edible flowers
Redrawing the map of the food forest on paper by the containor which has a new map of our land
The food forest planted
Natural building with cob plaster
Natural Buildingh with cob plaster
Drawing of the Chicken Food Forest. This shows the plants we planted during the October 2018 Food Forest Course with the spacing the plants will have in 5 years
Making hot compost piles to use to amend the soil in the new food forest
Final design of the food forest by one of the students
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