Making A Food Forest
After a year of dedicated work to harvest fast producing crops my father decided to convert the land to a food forest by planting fruit trees around the property.
That was a year ago when my parents decided to grow low maintenance crops that would gain larger return years later.
Starting from my little sister's idea of planting fruit trees around the hut, a lot more fruit trees had been added and variety of fruit trees have been planted now.
A fleshy jackfruit and lanzones which is given by local government to the farmers, local cocoa plant, and guavas are now more than a year older.
It was my mother who first planted these trees around the property, the idea still wasn't finalized at that time as much of the trees are still growing.
Four years ago the property was over grown with shrubs, it has become a jungle years after my grandparents decided to move out from there to live near the village.
Since then more snakes and critters lived there in the property and a deep silence of the forest grounds left the critters thriving.
Reclaiming back the land took a year to make it usable for farming, from cutting down shrubs and sending venomous creatures away.
Then even all the weeding and constant maintenance of cutting down shrubs, the garden still was overtaken with weeds.
Tending a garden has become so high maintenance than ever that everyone decided to stop going to the farm, except my mother who decided to continue doing the things they started.
My parents had grown vegetables for a year before switching to high value crops like bananas and fruit trees.
Fruit trees needed care for its first year of planting and once it grows it need not much care than it would before.
There were two years old trees there which my parents planted and one year old trees which my sister planted before my parents decided to finally fill the property with a different kinds of fruit trees.
We now harvested bananas and guavas from the trees that are planted two years ago.
It used to be a coconut and a rice farm yet now it was filled with fruit trees and shrub around with a secret garden in the place where my grandparents' house once stood.
It was so secret that even insects and people never knew there was a garden around.
So, let me share a sneak peak of the crops we harvest before switching to planting trees and some of the snippets of our vacation on the off-grid farm.
We still had neighbors though on the other hills around for we are near a village also two hills away which always play loud music in their large speakers which definitely scare forest creatures away.
It was life away from the village that we need the most, more oxygen, no fake lightings, fresh spring water, organic produce, and a natural sleeping pattern.
The noise from the speakers are probably heard because of the silence of the forest and the echo from the hills which made us feel that we still had neighbors after all even when they are so far away.
This is the life I wanted, away from the noise of the daily life, the crowd, and the four walls where life is at best and all is but a hard work.
A simple life is what I really seek with some quiet--or am I getting old?
I am almost there, living the life I dream of with a cup of coffee in my hand.
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I used to went to my late grandparent orchard to help them harvest when I still young. Since they passed, my family and relatives hired workers to taking care the orchard and already many years I did not go there. !LUV It's been long time I did eat barbeque eggplant or burnt eggplant, make me craving to have it now. !LOLZ
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Eating in the farm is so great, it makes every food tasty👍👍👍 i don't really like eggplant before but my big sister made food tasty so i eat all she cooks😄😄 thanks for coming by my post😁😁
very creative and innovative. this life needs to grow ideas such as turning vacant land into productive land. thank you for the information.
It sure is👍👍👍 only a few people apreciate agriculture and farming today, i just want to share them here😁
The farm sounds like a beautiful place to get back to nature and grow your own food. As long as there's coffee 😁
Our goal is to be self-sufficient and it's slowly working out. I hope i can help my parents grow the farm😊😊thank you for visiting, coffee sure is great in a rainy weather such as ours👍👍👍
That is awesome, to be self sufficient on land. You could even roast your own coffee beans since you have cacao trees planted.
I'll try this one after we harvest some, since they say cacao also have caffeine😁👍👍
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Such abundance, you and your family have done a wonderful job. It's a lot of work, it's true, but also very rewarding. Blessings and good vibes to you, thank you for your work
Yes, it helps this time that the world is facing a crisis🤗🤗 thank you for your encouragement👍👍
Yes this is the good decision. And really you are properly planning so farming always the give good and best quality harvesting.
Thank you tho😊👍👍