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Early Autumn Harvesting

Clearing the Jungle to Make Room for Fruit Trees and Gardens

So far we have cleared about 15% of our available land so far.  It is difficult and dangerous work. Below Kristina gives some perspective to the scale of our jungle. After clearing out the underbrush, we can find the larger trees that need to be cut down to compost over the next years. The smaller trees that are in good health can be left for future firewood harvesting.  We remove all crooked or damaged trees as we clear. Finding cliff walls and old retaining walls made of stone helps to illustrate the value of this land for agricultural use. Below Stan tackles one of our worst invasive species, False Tobacco.  It is a plague on our ecosystem. From inside our Zone 3, we can look out to our Zone 2 and the Wwoofer Cabana across our valley.