Edible food forest one (my) story

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Hello Steve:

 

There are a few who are doing both permaculture and raw foods in Portland.? We

have PPG (Portland Permaculture Guild) and hope to form one or more permaculture

organizations north of the Columbia river in Vancouver soon.? We also have a

RawPortland and a raw meetup group.

 

I have been gardening on and off here in a small space (15 feet by 15 feet)?

since spring of 1990 and doing permaculture since 2001 over the entire 8500 sq

foot lot (except for house and driveway. This is 1/5 of one acre. see

 

http://7.wmilmoe.com/meadowstilthurbanfarm

 

I also want to host raw visitors to the Vancouver / Portland area in my spare

bedroom.? It is nice to wake up and go out into the garden to use a rebounder or

forage or just observe the abundance of nature.? I am not officially open but if

the timing and person is right it could work now.? At some point i will want to

rent out the whole house to raw food gardener people, except for a part that I

will want to share the use of for the teaching of yoga, music, nutrition, social

dance, healing and other arts forms.

 

My location is close to I-205 and I-5, 10-15 minutes from the PDX airport.? I am

walking distance to a 5 star country club (Club Green Meadows) where I am an

employee member (I teach 3 gentle yoga classes a week there as well as the

resident ballroom, swing, county and salsa partner dance instructor.).? Use of

the facility is only $25 for my out of town guests for 7days or $10 per visit.?

Golf (18 holes), bowling and indoor tennis (6 courts) fees are additional and

golf tee times can only be after 12:00 noon.? Table tennis, pool table, indoor

or outdoor swimming pool, racketball/handball, basketball courts,? walleyball,

group exercise or cycling classes etc. are free and included.

 

Trees on my property are a cherry, 2 Autumn olives (small tart berries similar

to goumi) a black olive, two types of fig (3), 2 plums, 4 apple, the mini

hairless kiwi, blueberries, thornless raspberry, oregon grape(vine), concord

grape, red seedless flame grape, lots of wild and domesticated greens for

smoothies and salads. Edible flowers, edible tubers, chives, pet chickens (2

retired and loving - that egg laying is stressful), swales, ponds, lots of birds

come through and resident starlings, mason bees, leaf cutter bees, aphid eaters

and new this year lots of ground or solitary bees. For tall trees and future

income (8-1000 years) I have planted timber trees 3 douglas firs, one cedar 3

empress of china (paulownia).? For crafts and utility in the yard and home I

have many varieties of bamboo

 

I expect it to take 20 years (13 more to go) to get the garden finished to where

it will be just maintenance, daily harvesting and minimal at that.?

 

I have taken on a second site this year a 25 by 30 garden plot on an 11 acre

property 15 minute away by car.? If I pass the audition and want to move up to

leasing a 5 acre site that will not start before 2010.

 

Thanks for asking and best of success to you with your permaculture journey.

 

Bill Milmoe

http://7.wmilmoe.com/meadowstilthurbanfarm

 

Here is some marketing BS about the Empress (Royal) Paulownia Tree

 

Magnificent Flowering Shade Tree

Grows

so fast---arches out so wide---you can take a ruler and measure the

incredible difference in height every 2 or 3 days! It's like growing

instant shade. Wait until you see the spectacular show when it starts

to flower. Actually smothers itself in lavish masses of bouquets of

breath-taking lavender-blue blooms.

 

Grows In Virtually Any Soil

Requires

No Special Care... Hardy To 30 Below. Best of all its practically

work-free. Simply plant it, water it, enjoy it. Just a sprinkle a week

sends it soaring from a sapling to a roof high tree IN JUST ONE YEAR!

Turns even the barest spot into a shaded showplace of beauty. But

Supplies Are Still Extremely Short... So Act Now!

 

Mine grew a foot the first year and died back 6 inches which it has continued to

do every year (that is die back 6 inches)? My oldest tree is 15 feet tall after

4-5 years and has yet to flower....:>)

 

 

Stanley Sabre

 

Thursday, May 15, 2008 10:56 PM

 

 

 

edible forest gardening

 

 

 

namaste bros and sisters....does anyone have plans for, planted already, an

 

" edible forest garden " ? I have been reading this website

 

www.edibleforestgar

dens.com for the last hour and it is really an exciting

 

concept......IMHO.......silver eagle / stanley