Remember the picture I presented yesterday? It’s the back yard of a person in Texas that practices a permaculture lifestyle on a 1/4 acre lot. I have included their information here as an encouragement for you.

Here is what they grow.

Fruit
Pear, Methley plum, Brown Turkey Fig, Fuji Apple, Gala Apple, thompson seedless grape, strawberries, blackberries

Vegetables
Yukon Gold Potato, spinach, broccoli, mesclun, carrots, radish, onion, tomato (better bush, rutgers, black krim, red pear), peppers (california gold, big bertha, santa fe, hungarian wax, hungarian banana, tam jalepeno, pinot noir), eggplant (white ghost, black beauty, chinese), squash seedlings( yellow crookneck, calabaza, butternut, green cushaw), swiss chard, blue lake pole beans, rattlesnake pole beans, sugar snap peas, oregon sugar pods( peas), clemson spineless okra, asparagus, sweet potato (still sprouting indoors, will put out sets in 3 weeks)

Herbs
rosemary, sage, oregano, comfrey, dill, parsley, italian parsley, cilantro, thai basil, african blue basil, genovese basil, cinnamon basil, nasturtiums

edible “weeds”
chickweed, henbit, dandelion, rumex, purslane

Protein
3 Rhode Island Reds, 2 Barred Rock hens
( producing eggs plus lots of good ol’ chicken poo for the compost tumbler)

Years ago I took a class from a fellow that grew 350 fruit trees on his 10,000 square foot city lot in Northern Oregon. Now that’s not permaculture but it is pretty cool!

These are great stories that demonstrate to us that where there is a will, there is a way.

I’ll see you out in the field,
Parson Rayphe
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