Building our dream home : a chronicle of Grafton Keep

We have starting to plant the "Food Forest"

 

In total, we have already planted well over 100 trees.  This includes a number of maple trees, as well as some swamp oak and Hazelnut.  The trees we are most excited about are the variety of fruit trees planted.  The current list of trees is below.

 

Apple Trees:

    McIntosh

    Red Rome Beauty

    Starkspur Red Rome Beauty

    Cox's Orange Pippin

    Macoun

    Mountain Rose

    Kingston Black (a Cider apple, not great eats, but great drinking)

    Crabapple (for pollination, as well as using in cider making)

    Honeycrisp (planted in the woods to entice Bambi during hunting season)

    Hampshire Mac (planted near the honeycrisp for the same reason)

 

Cherry:

    Rainier

    Montmorency

    Black Republican

 

Pear:

    Forelle

    Kieffer

    Seckel

    Abate Fete

 

Nectafest Nectarine

 

Stanley Plum 

 

This is the picture of the Cherry and Pear trees we have lined up on the edge of the hill overlooking our neighbors property.

 

View of the Cherry and Pear trees

 

This is the current image of some of the apple trees we have planted so far.  We have also planted a handfull of trees out in the property to entice the local wildlife to browse later.  I fully anticipate utilizing these areas to hunt over.  

Building our property will consist of several phases.

The first is to finish out the building that already existed.  The image is what the building looked like when we first bought the property.  This will become our workshop and a 1 bedroom apartment we will live in this while building out the final home.