Yet again – but hopefully this time for keeps – I am planting a food forest.

We were able to get some of our plants from the old property, plus some new trees, and now we’re putting them in the ground. You can see the new food forest planting in the new video I did on planting sugar cane:

Today we have about 20 more stalks of cane to plant, plus a good bit of cassava – which we’ll plant in the ground now to see if it’ll sprout in the spring – plus lots of various roots, such as ginger, yams and more. I also have some banana pups I need to do something with, plus six citrus trees, plus 10 bare-root muscadine vines from Ison’s Nursery.

Busy busy!

I have a lot to be thankful for. This time I actually own my land, so I should be able to keep this food forest until I die, Lord willing.

These are very uncertain times and having a long-term source of food is vital. Plus, I like the idea of this homestead maybe becoming a botanical garden in twenty years or so. Perhaps families will take tours through here long after I’m gone!

Guess I need to plant some Monkey Puzzle trees that will fruit after I’ve left this realm. The plums I set as the photo for this post are from my old food forest in North Florida. I must do it again!