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Meadow to foodforest

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Commenced:	01/01/2016
Submitted:	20/01/2016
Last updated:	20/01/2016
Location:	Dennenstraat 20, Millingen aan de Rijn, NL
Climate zone:	Cool Temperate

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Meadow to foodforest

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Rural

Project Summary

Turning a meadow into a foodforest.

Project Description

After reading a permaculture course, I decided to work with this method regarding to build up the piece of land behind and next to our house. This location was used by a family since 1896, they always were growing their own food and the part of the land in that is further from the house, only had some horses on it. After 5 years building up some experience with growing our own grocery and fruit and herbs and building a bee house too (after a winter education about beekeeping), there are still nice opportunities in the design. We have in mind to create a natural (swimming)pond, extending and creating a better herbs garden, some more trees and bushes and probably a stork nest as there are many storks living here. Also we live next to a natural park and a river, our land is mainly clay and sand. A lot of waterbirds and other birds we can see here. Since we started growing several species of bushes in our garden, we have attracted many birds, also the neighbours are happy with all these birds. Around us is mostly farms with big lands and monoculture. Each year I grow our food self since we live here, I try to do that all year around. In winter we eat wintersalads from the wintergarden made off typical roots that can survive the winter and also wintersalads. I also use a glasshouse for that. As this land is a kind of wild, we still find wild plants we can eat like Cardamine hirsuta, which tastes very good in salads. To survive the winter I also can grocery and fruits in glass and sterilize it (wecken), making jams from fruit, making syrups from fruits and blossoms, making walnut with honey plates to serve with homemade icecreams and yoghurt and many more.

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