Ep. 164 – Building a Sustainable Nursery with Backyard Berry

Travis from Backyard Berry on Substack shares about his series “Building a Sustainable Nursery”.

His favorite trees: Pawpaws, Persimmons, and Pin Cherries (for the birds).

What is it like to be so near the central area where Pawpaws are grown, attending the festival. He is even drinking pawpaw ginger ale!

We also talk about his series on “Homegrown National Park”. Everyone was talking about national parks being affected by Federal land sales a few weeks ago. Travis posted that “What if the largest national park in America wasn’t a remote wilderness, but your own backyard?”

The idea: “transforming America’s private land into vibrant habitat corridors that restore biodiversity and ecological health.”

Travis also shares about what it is like to work on an organic vegetable farm.

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Raised beds that I am building to test Perennial Kitchen Garden layouts:

Vego Garden Modular Metal Raised Bed (which I will make 5′ x 3.5′, 17″ tall).

I use this for a perennial kitchen garden – growing herbs to use daily in the kitchen. Just come along and pick what you need for tonight’s dinner.

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Meadow Creature Broadfork is my favorite tool for starting new garden beds. I turn over the sod, add a layer of compost, then Milpa, and cover with woodchips.