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Get inspired by the 11 fastest-growing fruit trees that can boost your self-sufficient homestead. These prepper garden ideas will help you start gardening for self-sufficiency in no time. Save this pin to your gardening board to create your backyard orchard!

Essential guide to planning an orchard. Choosing the right size tree, selecting your favourite varieties and general planting advice.

This article is an introduction to the gardening technique of Backyard Orchard Culture – a system of high density planting of fruit trees which allows for a wide variety of fruit to be grown …

No matter how many trees or how much space you have, you can plant a homestead or backyard orchard to provide your family with fruit for generations to come.

Lovely, below, excepting why is the guild missing? Before learning what a guild is, I would have thought this garden, below, 'complete'. . Do you know what a guild is? . No? Parlay what you know a guild to be, in secular life, into the orchard. Pic, above, here. . From Google: "guild ɡild/ noun noun: guild; plural noun: guilds; noun: gild; plural noun: gilds a medieval association of craftsmen or merchants, often having considerable power. an association of people for mutual aid or the…

All you need to know to about How to Create a Garden Orchard with as little as 5 fruit trees. You really Don't Need a Massive Space.

Learn what fruit trees we chose for our "mini backyard orchard" in grow zone 7A and follow along as we plant them all!

How to select, locate and plant fruit trees on your homestead, the difference between dwarf and standard trees, and why you should plant in the fall.

We spend a lot of time looking at annual crops and gardens, but perennials have their places. When it comes to fruit trees, we have many options in sizes. There’s little more majestic than a full-s…

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Do you dream of growing a lush and productive organic garden in a small yard? Make that dream a reality! Discover how to harvest abundant delicious food all year-round from a small space.

Having a small homestead orchard is a great way to add to your self sufficiency and grow your gardening repertoire. Learn how to plan and plant one today.

The home grower can have a private orchard with three or four trees on a hundred square feet or so of space. Learn how you can grow your own fruit in a backyard orchard.

Our home orchard is a few years old now & today, I am sharing home orchard tips, ideas & four mistakes we made along the way so you can avoid making them.

Year Zero - Before You Plant Planning and installing an orchard can be a daunting project, with the sweet rewards years and even decades out. But like the Heirloom Orchardist says: You're Never Too Old To Plant An Orchard! Especially with cultivars grafted to grow on dwarfing root stocks, one could be eating their own, sweet peaches, apples, and plumbs within 3 to 5 years. Considerations I am still a while away from planting my next small orchard; however, the following are some of the…

Rural Sprout writer, Matthew Olshan shares the story of what it took to start a beautiful deer-proof, drought resistant orchard in his backyard.

Planting fruit trees in backyard (or front yard!) spaces provides an abundant harvest for years to come. Grow & produce food in small urban yards!

Home Orchard Bloom report. Plums. Methley = done. Satsuma = petals almost all dropped. Toka = all open , 1st petals dropping. Unknown = about 3/4 done Stanley = doesn't look like it will bloom. Gage = almost fully open. Peaches = all varieties are done. Cherries. I may have Vandalay and Sweetheart mixed in this photo. Both are about 1/4 open. Almaden Duke = fully open. Really beautiful tree. Tart Cherries = neither has started. This is good. I wanted them to be late in case of late frost…