My goal the retiring many years has been to increase our homegrown solid food so that we no longer have to purchase any garden truck from the grocery store .
Our new acreage is around the corner and even though we ’ve been grow large sum of fresh veggies ( usually about 80 % from May - Nov ) our fruit product has been miss . Fruit is very expensive to purchase ( specially Charles Edward Berry ) , as are herbs , and perennials like asparagus .
I ’ve been doing lot of garden planning and looking up blueprint musical theme for our acreage . When you grow intellectual nourishment on a large - scale so you have enough to salt away in a insensate elbow room or preserve for the off - time of year months , you ’re shifting from being a casual gardener to turn enough solid food to feed your family .
What you’re able to grow will depend on your growing zona & local climate , space and sun pic limitation as well as gardening experience .
rattling soil can take years to build , and expanding slowly can be the smart course of activeness . ( although I foresee us doing affair quite rapidly , especially planting fruit George Bush ) . I ’m also explore many permaculture concepts to integrate so we do n’t have to input too many resources ( like manure ) .
Large Vegetable Garden Layout Ideas
I love the ideas over atSolviva, who does Sustainable Solar-Dynamic Bio-Benign Designs
Looking at our new land , we have fantastic flat Lord’s Day drenched demesne to design for large - scale food production .
Before diving into the factual designing I ’ve been do list of what ’s important for large - scale food production and I wanted to divvy up them with you .
Large-Scale Home Food Production
The Importance of Garden Planning
Planning your garden is essential to big - scale solid food output , whether you ’re a farmer or you ’re trying to spring up enough for your mob year - rotund .
Learn how to originate greens - twelvemonth round with my fresh greens eBook .
Large Vegetable Garden Idea Books
This book is fantastic !
They have a few great homestead / garden plan estimation too as you could see in the photo below .
TheSustainable Market Farmer & theMarket Gardenerare both excellent books for orotund scale home nutrient production . You ’re basically taking the method from market husbandry for homegrown solid food & preserving .
Some related article I ’ve written about spring up food on a large - scale :
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