Organic Heritage Garlic Seed & Permaculture Food Forest
How growing a forest garden – a food forest – can generate health in more ways than one! Are you aching to find ways to bring wellness and health to you and your community? To reconnect with where food comes from and our environment, in more sustainable ways? We can […] Read more »
Food Forest Course Dates: June 18-19 2016 Come have fun and develop hands-on experience with Richard Walker, one of Canada’s most experienced forest gardeners in our one-acre cold climate food forest, just 35 minutes from Cranbrook, and 50 minutes from Fernie, BC. Richard is a food forester, designer, herbalist and […] Read more »
Food Forest Video Announcement: We’re very excited to share this new video of our food forest in its third year of life. The video features an introduction from Cara Conroy-Low, a look at some of the many plants that are thriving in the food forest and not to mention a […] Read more »
These photos were mostly taken during July and August 2015. It is the 10th Anniversary since Clear Sky retreat center was founded, and we have been celebrating! The food forest is doing well, planted in 2013, it is now in its third season. Food Forest notes and observations There was […] Read more »
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 […] Read more »
These photos were taken during the Canada Day long weekend. There had been incredible growth in the food forest, both food forest plants and grass included. The 3×3 foot landscape fabric squares around each tree offered good protection for individual trees. We spent a lot of time weedwhacking, bushhog mowing […] Read more »
It is early spring at Clear Sky, and the Food Forest is waking up after a long winter. Here are some food forest photos from the past week as we did some initial weeding, transplanting of native plugs and re-fastening of unruly landscape fabric, amongst other tasks. The new signs […] Read more »
Here are some photos of the one acre demonstration food forest at Clear Sky in year one of its growth. It was planted in late April and early May 2013, with some additional planting of windbreak trees in October 2013. With only 6 months to get established, the food forest […] Read more »
The basic idea of a food forest system is that we design how we grow food based on natural forest principles & relationships. In other words, we copy the way elements in a forest co-exists. Forests don’t need to be fertilised by us, watered by us, weeded by us, or […] Read more »
Root Stock Seed Storage & Stratification QUESTION: How do I store fruit seed for root stocks? I happened to find a huge box of relatively local organic pears from Creston, and want to save the seed for possible root stock. How should I best store them until spring? In a […] Read more »