The panic caused by the shelves stripped of food in the supermarkets after the big snow dump of 1996 motivated me to convert our yard ( 2 blocks from the Jubilee) to edible landscape based on permaculture. Like the beginning of the pandemic, shoppers were then also fighting over toilet paper. So I employed well known local permaculturalists (and neighbour) Geoff Johnson to do the planning and blue print.
There are now 18 established fruit trees, 2 nut trees and 14 types of berries, as well established veggies beds and drip irrigation throughout. Please check out https://show.tours/fernwoodsecret for details, including harvest record.
We are now going to sell our place and hope to find a buyer who will continue to develop the productivity of the garden. To that end, I have attached the link to the listing of our place in the hopes that someone within the permaculture community/organic food production with whom you connect might like to make our place their new place.
Thanks,
David Gerry
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When David Gerry is not out tending the garden, harvesting or processing the crops, for the past 20+ years, he has worked supporting those with neurodiverse conditions like FASD (fetal alcohol spectrum disorder).