An important strategy for designing a food forest system is to choose plant species and cultivars that extend the harvest season throughout the year. In the springtime, we can read the blossoms of the landscape to teach us what trees will fruit early and which trees will fruit late in the season. This can be […]
Greetings From the Floodplain, Listening to the land and observing the relationships between animals, plants, water, and soil provides the only true template for Regenerative Design. Good designers always take the time to listen, observe, and be curious about what natural systems have to teach us. Right outside your doorstep are ongoing complex and symbiotic […]
Greetings from a blossoming California, With the vernal equinox around the corner spring has already sprung it’s growth and beauty on the West Coast. This is the time of year where we see all kinds of different vegetation management techniques been implemented. The sounds of mowers and wood chippers can be heard everyday. The frolicking […]
Greetings from the Creek Bottom! While hiking in a beloved park I came upon this incredible scene. This creek is learning to deal with thousands of tons of erosive material that washed out of an enormous upstream gully. Trees on the bank of the creek fell into the water creating a large brush pile. This […]
Greeting from a 100 Year-Old Apple Orchard! I live on a small patch of what was once a fully functioning 80-acre Gravenstien apple orchard. The orchard was planted in 1916 (over 100 years ago!) and we have 10 of these old beauties still standing on our 1-acre homestead. Over the years’ large apple trees if […]
