Cully Food Forest #2

This is the second of four food forest demonstration sites in Cully, NE Portland. This design uses principles of syntropic agroforestry and the forest garden. Planting began in April 2024.

This planting’s canopy layer tree guilds include olives, mulberry, medlar, cherry, peach, plum, apple, fig.

The shrub layer includes blueberries, shipova, jujube, pineapple guava, currants, gooseberries, jostaberry, aronia, yuzu, goji, elderberry, raspberry, and two types of asparagus.

The groundcover consists of strawberry with sweet potato and squash growing during the summer.

Nitrogen Fixers include perennials autumn olive, seaberry, goumi, and lupine with fava, pole and bush beans, peanuts, and snap peas during the summer.

The herbaceous Layer includes comfrey, yarrow, lavender, mugwort, purple mountain spinach, parsley, artichoke, tree collards, sea kale, herbs, medicinals, and a variety of pollinator-supporting flowers.

The vine layer includes hardy kiwi and akebia.

The root and mycelial layers include garlic, potatoes, onions, ginger, and winecap mushrooms.