"I got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell."

Trees are my cowbell.

I got 99 problems but a tree ain't one.

So I just ordered a ton of trees and now I need to figure out where to put them. Come walk with me on my lunch as I show some of my thought process figuring out where to expand the food forest.

Typically we want to expand forests from forests. In nature, the 2 ways forests expand are from ecological succession (Bare soil - Weed pit - Grass land - Brushland - Emergent forest - Old growth forest), or from the edge of an existing forest. The former (ecological succession) takes hundreds to thousands of years. The latter (expanding from the edge of an existing forest) happens every day, very quickly.

When we find where we want to expand, we need to be looking at sun exposure (at multiple times per day), sun exposure, landscape and access. Everyone knows I'm a big fan of contour and creating passive self-sufficient low maintenance systems. So for me looking where I can expand swales is always a high priority. Looking where I have water catchment and natural funneling, then trapping that water, spreading it out and sinking it - that's how you make a system of fruit trees where you never have to work.

I had originally planned on planting out old-man walking trail, but I actually think it would be best to let that area sit for a full year before planting into it. So now I need to find where I'm going to put all these new trees that I impulse bought.

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Music credits:

Closer by Jay Someday | https://soundcloud.com/jaysomeday
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