What a beautiful year. Clear Sky’s One Acre food forest, in its second year of growth was still in good health, and beginning to yield small amounts of many different kinds of fruit. With a small, awesome group of volunteers we kept grass and overgrowth at bay, kept up watering minimally and bear proofed the food forest.
- Fruit observed to be doing well:
- ‘Missouri black currants’ (ribes odoratum)
- Pink currants
- Various kinds of plums
- Choke cherries
- Raspberries
- Evan’s cherries.
- There was a small amount of apples. No pears or filberts yet.
- Our older stand of seabuckthorn also yielded fruit, though suffered a bit from lack of water in the dry months.
- Saskatoon berries were delicious but suffered also from the ‘rust’ that the native saskatoons have got- rumoured to be related to wild juniper.
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- Black Choke Cherry
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- Day Lily, Home to happy insects
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- Dharma Teachers: Mary and Tarchin, Catherine and Doug
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- Echinacea – butterflies love them
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- We spent most of the season working on bear proofing the perimeter of the food forest. (electric strands outside pagewire)
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- Luke Kimmel & friends visit the food forest, eating Evans Cherries.
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- The Colours of fall 2014.
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- Gaetane and Humberto – wonderful volunteers from Cranbrook who saved the day helping with irrigation repairs.
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- Our awesome neighbour Herb helping us put up a fence so his cows can graze part of our field.
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- Balloon Flower, aka Jie Geng, a chinese medicinal herb, particularly good for the lungs.
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- Fence builders and seabuckthorn harvesters pose for a shot.
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- Yummy! Missouri Black Currant aka Ribes Odoratum aka Clove Currant
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- Yummy! Missouri Black Currant aka Ribes Odoratum aka Clove Currant
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- Trying some sour plums because we can’t resist.
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- Gloire de Sablons – Pink Currant!
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- Off to harvest seabuckthorn berries!
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- Yellow choke cherry inhabited by yellow friend.
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- Michelle Heinz, our food forest at Clear Sky visionary!
Photos © Cara Conroy-Low, © Maya Lewandowsky