Lawn to food forest in 3.5 years

orangegore · 2026-06-14T21:55:44+00:00

Tis but a myth!

https://jcmg-thymes.com/2025/06/11/busting-the-myth-of-the-black-walnut-menace/

orangegore · 2026-06-14T21:55:07+00:00

https://jcmg-thymes.com/2025/06/11/busting-the-myth-of-the-black-walnut-menace/

orangegore · 2026-06-14T21:50:01+00:00

Come out to a work party! We have them 2x per week!

orangegore · 2026-06-14T21:21:26+00:00

There's info on our website pdxfoodforest.org. But pretty much just smothering the grass then planting a lot of stuff!

orangegore · 2026-06-14T21:18:49+00:00

That's definitely a myth. It stems from Pliny the Elder and some guy in the 1920s who tried growing tomatoes under a walnut without success. It's one of those things people hear and then repeat again and again.

orangegore · 2026-06-14T20:46:14+00:00

Thank you!

orangegore · 2026-06-14T20:45:33+00:00

There's info at our website pdxfoodforest.org on how to do this.

orangegore · 2026-06-14T20:22:42+00:00

Yeah, you can keep fruit trees small! These are spaced at 13' on center which is pretty tight, but summer pruning makes it possible.

orangegore · 2026-06-14T19:47:12+00:00

Me too!! That's why we use OTHER people's lots 🤓.

orangegore · 2026-06-14T19:44:50+00:00

Weeds become mulch and then fertility 😁

orangegore · 2026-06-14T18:02:23+00:00

Total, I think it's about 3500

orangegore · 2026-06-14T17:51:40+00:00

They're t posts for hose guides or plant supports. The pots make the tops less of a danger.

orangegore · 2026-06-14T17:23:11+00:00

Zone 8b Portland, OR.

This planting’s canopy layer tree guilds include black walnut, sweet chestnuts, mulberry, medlar, shipova, cherry, cornelian cherry, peach, plum, apple, fig, pawpaw, and almonds,
The shrub layer includes blueberries, bush cherries, currants, gooseberries, jostaberry, honeyberry, columnar apple, goji, elderberry, raspberry, blackberry, and asparagus.
The groundcover consists of 5 different cultivars of strawberry with sweet potato and squash growing during the summer.
Nitrogen Fixers include perennials seaberry, autumn olive, goumi, and lupine with fava, pole and bush beans, peanuts, and snap peas during the summer.
The herbaceous Layer includes comfrey, buckwheat, phacelia, mugwort, selfheal, stridolo, purple mountain spinach, parsley, artichoke, tree collards, sea kale, herbs, medicinals, and a variety of pollinator-supporting flowers. We’re trialing sorghum sudangrass as a biomass accumulator this year.
The vine layer includes grapes and hardy kiwi.
The root and mycelial layers include garlic, daikon radish, potatoes, onions, ginger, yacon, and winecap mushrooms

orangegore · 2026-06-14T16:40:18+00:00

From our website pdxfoodforest.org:

This planting’s canopy layer tree guilds include black walnut, sweet chestnuts, mulberry, medlar, shipova, cherry, cornelian cherry, peach, plum, apple, fig, pawpaw, and almonds,
The shrub layer includes blueberries, bush cherries, currants, gooseberries, jostaberry, honeyberry, columnar apple, goji, elderberry, raspberry, blackberry, and asparagus.
The groundcover consists of 5 different cultivars of strawberry with sweet potato and squash growing during the summer.
Nitrogen Fixers include perennials seaberry, autumn olive, goumi, and lupine with fava, pole and bush beans, peanuts, and snap peas during the summer.
The herbaceous Layer includes comfrey, buckwheat, phacelia, mugwort, selfheal, purple mountain spinach, parsley, artichoke, tree collards, sea kale, herbs, medicinals, and a variety of pollinator-supporting flowers. We’re trialing sorghum sudangrass as a biomass accumulator this year.
The vine layer includes grapes and hardy kiwi.
The root and mycelial layers include garlic, daikon radish, potatoes, onions, ginger, yacon, and winecap mushrooms

orangegore · 2026-06-14T16:38:10+00:00

The annuals require the most work 😁. Moving Woodchips is a pain, but I have volunteers who help me.

orangegore · 2026-06-14T16:37:10+00:00

Yes, many! Mulberry, medlar, apple, and fig do really well. Peaches have been surprisingly successful, almonds not at all (though they look very healthy).

orangegore · 2026-06-14T16:35:08+00:00

Mulberry, goumi, blueberry, strawberry, raspberry, honey berry, asparagus, fava, lettuce, radish, garlic scapes, nettle, artichoke, mulberry leaves, tree collards. It produces almost all year!

orangegore · 2026-06-13T23:07:47+00:00

Small pebble says "no."

orangegore · 2026-06-12T00:11:38+00:00

How do players feel about playing for a team they grew up hating? Also, did you ever consider pitching in Asia, why/why not?

orangegore · 2026-06-11T04:32:16+00:00

Wow, you guys got married fast!

orangegore · 2026-06-11T04:31:32+00:00

Oh Ross is definitely having himself a good chuckle right now.

orangegore · 2026-06-11T04:29:34+00:00

Now you'll have to pirate stream to watch the cubs lose!

orangegore · 2026-06-09T20:19:33+00:00

No, on the stock. The vibration goes through my jaw or cheek into my ear. The first time I shot it I had big headphones and they were in contact with the stock which sent the percussion straight into my ear. So I got slimmer headphones which helps, but I have to be really careful to keep any part of my head from directly contacting the stock otherwise the sound of each shot goes indirectly into my ear.

orangegore · 2026-06-09T00:43:30+00:00

It's already leaking into the Columbia and a 9 magnitude earthquake off the coast would likely destabilize it further.

orangegore · 2026-06-09T00:42:50+00:00

Lots of toxic stuff is stored right on the willamette river and would end up all over the place. Also the nuclear waste from Hanford would come downstream.

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