Cully Food Forest #3
Cully Food Forest #3
This is the third of four food forest demonstration sites in Cully, NE Portland. This 2500 sq ft design uses principles of syntropic agroforestry. Planting began in March 2024.
This planting’s canopy layer tree guilds include olives, mulberry, medlar, cherry, peach, plum, apple, fig, quince, and hazelnut.
The shrub layer includes blueberries, 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, lavendar, 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.
The root and mycelial layers include garlic, potatoes, onions, ginger, and winecap mushrooms