The Demonstration Garden — One Nature

2012 View of Front Yard

2012 View from NE Corner

The first 3 bin compost system

2013 - Grassland Management

2013 (June) Vegetable Garden

2013 Vegetable Garden (August)

2013 - More grassland management

Aerial view of garden within property

2014 - Detail of Carboard Lawn Cap

2014 - Back Arbor Detail

Arbor and raised bed

2014 - Arbor and Gate

Building the fence and arbor

2015 - late Fall

2014- Strawberry Bed

2014 - Using buckwheat as a soil fixer

2014 - Front yard Blueberry Plantings

2014 - Raspberries along the front yard, before the mulch

Spring 2015 - Adding horse manure to the compost

2015 - Baby Paw Paws

Aerial view of side planting bed

2015 - Cedar fence entry to Paw Paw Alley

2015 - The First Teepee, built from bamboo found on-site

2015 - Calendula and more in mulched garden beds

Fig plants

2015- Mulched Raspberries with firewood edging

2015- Blueberres remain in the streetside berry hedge

Design Sketch

Starting the garden beds

2015 - Late summer backyard view from Deck

2016 - Backyard from Deck

Garden trellis and beginning of garden beds

Aerial view of garden and trellis

2016 - Compost Portrait

Hundreds of native plugs

View of garden from deck

Planted plugs

2016 - Dwarf fruit trees

Baby willows along edge of fence

2016 - Macoun Apple

2016 - Teepee #2

2016 - Concord Grape planting near the sunroom

Beans beginning to grow up garden trellis

2016 - Native pollinator perennials in mid-summer

2016 - Rain Gauge

2016 - Our first chickens

2016 - Roosters, not chickens

2016- Fall Garlic

Black-eyed Susans in front of house

Veggie starts planted

Major growth in the garden!

Growing veggies

2016 - Pumpkin Patch (former strawberry patch)

2015 - Straw Bale Playground

2016 - Peak growing season

2016 - Shade tree in the backyard

2016 - Good ridance gooseberry

2016 - Bed by bed replanting

2016 - Perennial wildflowers from seed banks

Fall 2016- Newly planted American Hazlenut (Filburt)

Monarda blooms in the garden

2016- Fall Willow Hedge

Sunflower wall

2016 - Overhead view of vegetable garden area

Tomato harvest

Corn harvest

Railing install on front steps

2016 - Stormwater swale to annual garden

2016 - Concept sketch for water movement

2016 - Freshly dug future wetland

2016 Winter Teepee Sweat House

Bamboo and spruce in front yard

2017 - The grape begins to climb

2017- Planting sweet potatoes

Plantings along edge of swale

Close-up aerial of veggie garden

Soil mix

Covered veggie starts

Plant starts

Willow buds

2016 - Used Teak Table

2017 - Herbaceous Hedge

2017 - Willow, flowers, and apple tree

2017 - Another Phase of Compost

2017 - Geodesic Chicken Coop

2018 - Lawn Nest

2018- Roofwater runoff in action

Blooming

2018 - Aesclepias (Milkweed)

Veggie growth

Perennial blooms

Ladybugs!

Perennial island

2018 - Koi Pond under construction

2018 - Unfair Advantage

2018 - Inside the future koi pond

Raspberry growth

Blueberries

Bee balm blooms

2019-Winter

Plant home under the dome

2019 - Planning the Front Yard

2020-Moon gate and bluestone path

Swale close-up

Perfect for hanging hammocks!

Paw paw bud

Woodland poppy bloom

Summer 2021-Mow strip

Summer 2021-Tilled pathway to moongate

Summer 2021