A food forest with a database behind it.
Seven rows. 133 guilds. More than 2,000 plants in the ground, with a couple hundred anchor plants carrying individual records in a database we generate ourselves – because the difference between a food forest and an expensive meadow is knowing what you planted, where, and what it did next.
This section is the heart of the site: the design logic (why rows, why guilds, why these species), the plant-by-plant Field Reports with honest ratings, and the technology layer – the automation, sensors, solar, and water systems that make a family-scale farm partially run itself. If you came for either the permaculture or the tech, fair warning: here they’re the same subject.
Start with the Field Reports – every plant we grow eventually earns one. The design deep-dives are on their way.