Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Fruits and Other Perennials

With my sophomore year at North Carolina State University coming to a close, moving back home, and interning on an organic produce farm...life has been quite busy.

I am happy to give you all a Practice Farm update. For more up to date photo posts, follow practice_farm on Instagram here.

Wild black berries found growing in the brush.

4 newly planted raspberry bushes.

The front flower bed is housing many herbs, including oregano, basil, mint, and sage.

Newly planted and trellised blackberries.

Granny smith apple tree. 

Close up of the granny smith apples. 

Another one of our apple trees has fallen over but continues to survive, unfortunately covered in poison ivy.

Newly planted fig tree from NC State, propagated by air layering and now planted in our back yard!

Diagonally growing cherry tree. We are not sure how it fell over, any solutions?

The not-so-tame muscadine vines, but the fruit is growing! I am hoping to learn how to prune them, because it appears that they were not pruned by the previous land owner.

A close up of the muscadines.

We have been blessed with this property. All of the fruit trees (excluding the fig) and muscadine vines were here when my mother purchased the land, and I am hoping for a bountiful harvest! 

"And I have given you land for which you did not labor, and cities that you build not, and now you dwell in them; eating of the vineyards and olive eytzim(trees), which you did not plant."

Joshua 24:13 (RSTNE)


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Blessings,
Olivia