Land Management and Farming with the Seasons

Fall

• Earth moving and swale building
• Cover crop sowing
• Breeding livestock
• Collecting, ordering, and seeding nuts
• Harvesting: nuts – acorns, walnuts and chestnuts!

Winter

• Bare root tree and rootstock orders
• Winter greens:
  • Brassicaceae
  • Asian greens
  • Lettuce
• Mulching
• Pruning
  • Cuttings for plant propagation
  • Saving scion budwood
• Grafting pruned scions to rootstocks
• Seed starting: summer crop seeding inside
• Harvesting: mushrooms, seaweed

Spring

• Incorporating cover crop into soil
• Ripping soil
• Planting trees
• Irrigation installing
• Preparing for new livestock births
• Harvesting: nettle, cattail and bamboo shoots

Summer

• Lots of food!
  • Tomatoes
  • Solanaceae (nightshade family plants): eggplant, pepper, tomatillo, etc.
  • Curcurbitaceae (squash family plants): squash, cucumber, etc.
• Training livestock with recall, grazing, and connecting
• Seed starting: winter crop seeding inside
• Harvesting: fruit