emerald toucanet

[ihas2stinkyfeet]

14. yeah, mostly i just want to prove it can be done on this continent

and w/o child/slave labor.
i guess i could track down some green beans and figure it out. home roasting is a thing. but the point is the pods and all that. harder to find still in the pod.

i know a lot of folks out in galena. clay ppl.
i almost bought a house out there about 10 yrs ago. in fact, i got screwed out of a foreclosure. handled by one of the big real estate firms here who refused to go to bat for me.

the other thing i think i could grow successfully is tea. right now i am doing teas extracts from things like lemon balm and spearmint, aka weeds. but also raspberry, strawberry, etc leaves.
i have a big jar of sweet olive leaves brewing right now. but artisan tea blends coipd be a real money maker.
planning more olives in the spring. finally at the point where fruit trees are producing for me. had so many peaches on a 5 yo tree that, even tho i culled several times, i still had a good size branch break. and a poor little young pear that had branches almost touching the ground.

hugelkultur and fruit trees arent supposed to go together. it's been a learning curve, but i figured out the basics. next year will be great.