Just look around that area of the world that you would love to live . Maybe somewhere sithing
a few hours drive of the ocean ? Maybe within a 1/2 hour of a nice lake or river . Some where within 1 hour drive of a major
city and i betcha you will find 5 acres or two 2.5 acre parcels available for purchase at very close to 3,000 and acre if
you buy 10 or 5,000 and acre if you buy 5 . 2008 prices
The commuting costs into the city can be a NON issue if
in time you find the hobby of creating your own fuel to be fun and rewarding .
Watch this video about food forests , important imfo is the design of 20/10/5 ... think a bout
puttin a walking path 20 feeet inside of the wood fuel boarder planting , this inner is a 2 foot wide rasied bed spaced 20
feet by standard sized orchard fruit tress , in between 10 foot a dwarf fruit tree , inbetween at 5 foot spacing a berry of
some sort the ground level is the SFG grid but in the form of 2 foot squares.
HOw this works is buy 2 , 2x4's cut 2 feet off so you make a 2x6 foot planter border , 1 standard tree
, 1 planter border snugged up near the tree ( give effort space for the TRUNK to form at the end pu in a berry or grape then
another planter and then a dwarf/shrub fruit tree another planter and repeat the cycle. The planters should be
placed ontop of a mounded bed of top soils extracted from site prep and lake excations.
a 5 acres iste is about 400 foot x 500 ft or think about that as 20 orhard trees
per side , 20 dwarf trees and 40 bush/vine. Pick 20 of each type times 4 for good pollination and 20 varities to insure
crops on off years , 4 trees will provide well for the family .
Standard Orhard trees
Apple:
RED
YELLOW
DARK RED
YELLOW TRANSPARENT
GRANNY SMITH
Peach:
RED
HALE
ELBERTA
Cherry :
BLACK
EARLY RED
apricot:
pear;
BARTLET
KIEFFER
BOSCH
plums
nectarine
that is 15 types now add
on 5 NUT TREES
HICKORY
WALLNUT
CHESTNUT
PECANS
ALMOND
ALL THE ABOVE CAN COME IN DWARF
TREES ALSO
BERRYS and VINES
grape:
CONCORD
HIMROD
CANADICE
RELIANCE
MARS
MARQUIS
CATAWBA
BOYSENBERRY
SEA BERRY
SAND CHERRY
GOOSEBERRY
MULBERRY
DEWBERRY
HONEYBERRY
raspberry:
HERTIAGE
CUMBERLAND
THORNLESS CNBY
BRANDYWINE
BLACK HAWK
DURHAM
AMBER
LATHAM
LOGAN
balckberry:
DARROW
BLACK SATIN
blueberry:
TOPHAT
SUNSHINE
DUKE
BLUECROP
JERSEY
AND THE LIST CAN GO ON AND
ON add in some special specem trees in other areas of your land . just understand the possibles revovling around a FOOD FOREST