How do you take a lawn, and transform it into something really beautiful AND productive.

 

Garden Elements

  • Sandbox - growing a young boy
  • Raised beds on contour - water retention
  • 600 ft fence - steel gavinized w/cedar posts

The 5 year plan

  • intensive annual vegetable garden
  • dwarf and semi-dwarf fruit trees
  • berry bushes
  • interplanted herbs and native flowers
  • small livestock like chickens
  • a new pond

SPECIFICATIONS

Location – Tivoli, NY
Acres – 4.5
Garden - 15000 sf
Budget – $2000/yr
Design – $1500

RESOURCES

Me - Permaculture site plan, project managment
Andrew Faust - Permaculture consulting
No-Lawn Shawn - Permaculture consulting
Hoot - Fence and garden installation support
Bruna, Luca - Co-Owners / Homesteaders
Dan, Ella, Nic, Evan - homesteading helpers