Starting a Food Forest On 5 New Swales

Ever since we got introduced to Permaculture some 10 years ago we had a dream to start and grow a beautifully productive food forest. We've made the first steps on our new off grid homestead in Portugal to realize this dream and planted close to 400 productive and support species. We built 5 new swales with the help of a small excavator and have planted a wide variety of trees on them.

The trees we planted include:
Figs, Apricots, Cherries, Plums, Apples, Hazelnut, Chestnut, Walnuts, Peaches, Nectarines, Mandarins, Lemons, Lime, Pomegranate, Feijoas, Persimmons, Mulberries, Oranges, Avocadoes, Loquats, Olives and a bunch of other species.

With the help of drip irrigation, deep mulching and seed mixes our goal is to convert an abandoned hillside into a thriving food forest and off grid homestead.

Follow our journey and learn with us as we experiment different strategies to make this place into a beautiful and productive small family farm.

Visit our website: https://www.rootsreconnected.com/