This Orchard Doesn't Look Like an Orchard (and it's full of Trios!)

🍋 Lemon Camp: September 17 and 24Grow a healthy, productive lemon tree in a pot. In these two live online sessions, Steven Biggs covers watering, feeding, pruning, repotting, pests, flowers and fruit—and how to get a lemon tree through the winter.Recordings are included, so you can watch afterwards if you can’t attend live.Learn more and register for Lemon Camp- - - Permaculture OrchardWe chat with orchardist Stefan Sobkowiak who replaced an organic apple orchard with a permaculture orchard at Miracle Farms. We talk about:Why he prefers a permculture planting to a monoculture organic apple orchardHow can an orchard be a permaculture?The system of “trios” he uses as a basic design unitMinimizing external inputsUsing sheep in an orchardTimelines for establishing a permaculture orchardUsing fruiting shrubs under treesPlanting perennial flowers, herbs, and vegetables underneath fruiting shrubsWhen it comes to the idea of permaculture, Sobkowiak says, “It’s just applied common sense.”