The Flatrock Food Forest EP4: Sheet Mulching and Wood Chips. 

Angela, thanks for following! Food forests and perennial spaces are a great addition to you food production arsenal. They have the ability to grow and change. Thing about it as a 5 dimensional space. Length width and height as well as time in season as well as evolution through years. Each year will be different. Don’t be afraid to overplant at a high density. Nature would do the same…but this gives you some of the control. They say that about 1/3 of you plants should be nitrogen fixers in a northern climate. Think lupins, goumi, sea buckthorn and maybe even alders. I tend to pair lupins with comfrey and walking onions to form an initial guild with my trees. More plants can be added as you propagate more. Hopefully I’ll post a video soon about this. So many of my projects need a video update! Thanks again!

@@TheHomesteadatFlatrock Thanks for the suggestions. I will definately follow your advice. I know where to get some lupins. I have ordered a few Sea Buckthorns trees. I have some Walking onions growing in my garden now that I can transplant. Are the alders the regular ones that grow everywhere around here? Where do you suggest I get the Comfrey and the Goumi?

@@AngelaSpasiuk-eb4bh yes alders are nitrogen fixers, a great source of nitrogen and biomass in general. gout can be purchased at whiffletree. comfrey is tricky. you want the sterile type that doesn't produce seed. I have bocking 4. I originally purchased from whiffletree so they may have some. I have propagated 50-60 from the original 10 that I ordered. easy to propagate from crown cuttings and root cuttings. some consider lupins a nuisance...and they can be, the key is to chop and drop the flowers before the seed matures. or you can just leave it. nature has a way of self regulating. I planted a load of them in the first year. so many that about 30% fo them had a massive aphid infestation. nothing else was affected just the lupins. those attacked by aphids didn't come back. nature regulated the system for me.