PHASE 2: Building the Systems - Bees, Gardens, Education

Year 4 - 2012: Emphasis: Bees, scything, creating guilds; observation & practical applications of concepts. Main expenses: bees & hives; scything workshop & scythe blades; more perennial plants; adding to permaculture library; mulch and soil. Operations & Infrastructure Plants & Gardens Amenities & Fun Stuff Education & Outreach Marketing Expenses / Income Streams Bees! First 4-lb package of Carniolans! ($100) Scything Workshop: Alexander Vido / Captured a neighbor's swarm of bees - plus Built 3 new spiral gardens! - 1 as bee Scytheworks ($75) New spiral garden / bee watering station new bees swarmed - 3 hives watering station, 1 toadhouse for grandkids, Books: "Groundcover Plants" by Martin Dug pit for "kiddie pool" for overflow from Permaculture plants: focus on assorted 1 w/recycled bottles & sedums; Crawford, "Real Food Fermentation," "Growing rainwater tank; placed in willows for groundcovers, perennial vegetables, native Strategic placing of poles where birds can Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms" by Paul overflow; duckweed; bees, frogs, etc. plants for wildlife cooridor, making garden perch and drop fertilizer; Stamets, "How to Grow Perennial Vegetables" New keyhole beds around contorted filbert "rooms" more efficient. Incorporated patterns into garden "rooms" - by M. Crawford, "Taylor's Guide to Fruits and tree and also radiating from large compost Native Plants: 10 ea Mock Orange, Oregon see what makes sense & where: spiral, Berries," "Uses of Wild Plants," "The Organic cage that will become a "living wall" Grape, Red Currant, & Serviceberry; Other waves instead of straight lines, zigzags, Farmer's Business Handbook," "The Holistic New homes for Red Wigglers in buckets plants: Korean Bush Cherry, Korean rose, honeycomb, fluvial networks, etc.; keyhole Orchard" by M. Phillips, "The Practical (with holes drilled in) sunk into ground Seaberries, hazels, currants, gooseberries, beds; hexagonal plantings; berm/bed & pit Beekeeper" M. Bush, "Mycelium Running" by P. between shrubs so leachate will fertilize mimosa silk tree, Siberian pea, autumn olive, construction. Stamets, "AgroForestry News" by Crawford et nearby shrubs silky dogwood, spice viburnum, cranberries, Willow Room dance. al., "Edible Forest Gardens, Vol. 2" by Jacke & Invested in hand tools because mechanical yacon, oca & mashua roots, scorzonera, Good Experiments with wild foraged plants, Toensmeier ($400) tools keep breaking down and costing a lot King Henry, hollyhock mallow, currants, musk uncommon fruits, fermentation, home WSDA workshop on creating value-added to fix! New tools: scythe & honing kit and mallow, etc. ($850) canning, & products with potential for products through Specialty Crop Block Grant Magna Grecia hoe ($275) 3 Sisters corn, bean/pea, squash, borage patch commercializing for resale under WSDA value-Program ($80) Beehive construction & supplies ($340) Worked on creating database of plants and their added products ideas. Class on Sustainable Landscaping through Minor equipment & supplies ($200) uses and functions Time spent observing the garden, the Clallam County Conservation District ($20) Tool/equipment investment: orchard Experimented with of veggies & changing paths of the sun and corresponding Popular blogpost: presentation by Paul Gautschi ladder, backpack sprayer, small utility shed flowers; determining how to best convert changes in growth & decline in garden; & visit to his no-till orchard & garden ($350) conventional orchard to "food forest" better understanding of microclimates & Outreach: North Olympic Peninsula Beekeepers' Labor ($270) Soil, mulch, and Fertilizers ($425) guild combinations Association Garlic, crafts, small business consulting

Year 5 - 2013: Emphases: Filling in the herbaceous and groundcover layers; use of green manure cover crops; better defining guilds. Plant propagation. Seed harvest & packaging. Identifying pollen & nectar-producing plants, when they bloom, what pollinators they attract; better understanding ecosystem interactions. Beginning of PDC program!

Operations & Infrastructure Plants & Gardens Amenities & Fun Stuff Education & Outreach Marketing Expenses / Income Streams

New bees! Multiple swarms! Went from 2 hives to 6! Purchased 3# pkg of bees ($85) New Plants: Seeds of unusual vegetables from JL Hudson, groundnuts, sunchokes, licorice, Reference books: "Chinese Medicinal Herb bunching onions, Akira sunflowers, bamboo, Emphasis on natural, non-invasive Gardening," "Flower Farming," "Seed linden, weeping mulberry, honeyberries, beekeeping methods & support for a variety Production," "The Resilient Farm and currants, cranberries, lingonberries, 4 new of pollinators. Homestead" by B. Falk ($100) kinds of willows ($425) Built a bat house; set up snake and lizard Signed up to obtain Permaculture Design Fertilizers & specialty soils ($175) abodes and areas for bumblebee & mason Certificate through Regenerative Leadership More emphasis on plants for bees & figuring out bees; built an insect hotel Institute ($290) what blooms when. Continue with database of plants, rqmts, Outreach Donation: beehive for fundraiser Uncommon fruits really starting to produce! uses, niches, functions auction event to Northwest Straits Foundation Supplies for processing & pkg BF products Rosehips, goji, goumi, beach plums, More willows! Willow room definitely taking ($350 value) ($400) Saskatoons, Medlar, etc.; mashua vines very shape & highlight of garden. Hiding places in Outreach: North Olympic Peninsula Beekeepers' Marketing expenses: webhosting, website vigorous; oca roots very productive; kale was a willow tunnels & at the willow chairs. Played Association; Clallam County Fair NOPBA booth theme, signage, etc. ($500) Tools for making beehives ($425) food forest in itself! Malabar squash was simply with willow sculptures. Outreach: Interactive demo at Farm Tour on More diversified income: Garlic, uncommon Scythe blades ($150) incredible! Bumper harvest of apples. So much Diversity of garden & assorted habitats are how to build insect hotel & importance of greens, berries, seeds, swarm boxes, Beehive & beekeeping supplies ($300) variety & productivity! (Thank you, bees!) Definitely making a difference in attracting a creating habitat for insects garden & assorted crafts, garden photo Labor ($325) Biggest challenges: grass, thistle, morning lot of birds, insects, snakes, deer, voles. Subscribed to (and blogged about) subscribing calendars, small business consulting. Improved pathways. glory invasions; voles & underground mammals Polyculture chaos! Hooray! to local CSA program. More bartering. Year 6 - 2014: Emphasis: Working on PDC project; reading 's Manual; writing up ideas and pulling them together on a website. Participation in garden show provided marketing and outreach opportunities. Fewer monetary investments in plants, soils, infrastructure, equipment. More on labor, education, marketing/outreach. Operations & Infrastructure Plants & Gardens Amenities & Fun Stuff Education & Outreach Marketing Expenses / Income Streams Explored growing grains: amaranth & quinoa. Additional emphasis on bee plants, medicinal herbs, groundcovers. Tracking paths of sun; identifying sectors & factors that influence gardens, property, Directory listing for local Farm Guide microclimates; mapping out property, garden publication ($30) rooms, pathways Soroptimist Booth fee, booth setup, Creating pit gardens and overflow beds from marketing & packaging materials ($500) water sources Printer & ink for printing seed packets Improving guilds; growing more medicinal ($225) New homes for Red Wigglers in bathtub plants New Willow Dome near orchard! Mindmap: Backyard Diversity; multiple ($20 at recycle) by "living wall"; leachate Harvesting mulch w/scythes & applying Experiments with dye plants: madder, osage income streams; feasibility and market drains into bucket from bathtub drain. everywhere has made a huge difference in orange, weld, willow, etc. Soroptimist Gala Garden Show participant analysis. Strategic planning for future Experiment with sunken bed / rain garden water conservation & soil health, which paid off Experiments with soaps & reclaiming older w/booth: shared info on permaculture, Warre business ideas. / overflow pit - potential new pond or just in the unusually hot, dry, windy summer. homemade soaps; crafts using herb hives, bee gardens, diversified systems. Soroptimist Gala Garden Event: Sold garlic, vernal? Bumper harvest of uncommon fruits: goumi, combinations; lotions & herb-soaked oils. Reference: "Permaculture: A Designers' Manual" seeds, willow rods for basketry, plants, Pathways: brick, mulch, redefining goji, Autumn olives, beach plums, Nanking Solar lights around pond attract bugs at by B. Mollison; Paul Wheaton materials on "Jump Juice," beehives & swarm boxes, Mulch harvest with scythes cherries, Cornelian cherries, aronia berries, night for fish and are beautiful! permaculture; Integrated ; garden products & crafts, garden More spent on labor to keep up with highbush cranberries, seaberries Original willow room is taken over by bald- Organic Mushroom Farming; Rocket Mass photography. things! ($300) Seeds & plants: $250; Fertilizers/specialty soils: faced hornets that appear to be feeding on Heaters; Building with Cob. Total Reference In 2014, more time spent on garden & Tools & Eqpmt: $50 $150 aphids. Lesson in ecosystem dynamics! Materials: $250 getting PDC.