Wodhof Urban Farmstead.

It has been awhile since I have posted here. It seems like other world events have overshadowed the debate about energy and the environment in this country. I have also been working with my wife toward some new sustainability projects. I have discussed some of our gardening efforts when I first started this blog. After much research we are in the planning stages of creating an urban forest farmstead. Our garden was a mixed success this year.

In evaluating the downsides of this year we realized we started late in the planting season. We have a fifty year old yard that is very fertile but is also full of tree roots. We dug our beds by hand. We have almost an acre of land to use and got nowhere close to getting it all prepared.

On the positive side for this year, we have chili peppers, and summer squash. we will have late strawberries and carrots soon. The chives have done well. The artichoke is doing well as is the fennel. We are still getting tomatoes though they got beat up pretty bad the day we had four inches of rain in just a few hours mixed with hail. The mints are doing very well.

We have much more ambitious plans for the next couple of years. This includes removing non fruit and nut trees, and replacing them with food producing trees and bushes. We are going to rent equipment for a day to get the grass out and get the top soil prepped. We have stone paths to build. Our drive way is in pretty bad shape after nearly sixty years, and so we will be replacing it with something more environmentally friendly. We are looking into ways to capture the rain that comes from the heavy summer storms we tend to get during the monsoon season.

During the current economy we have dug ourselves out of our credit hole, but we cannot afford to move to the country so we are doing what we can here. The name of our farmstead comes from the Old Norse Wod {vode-inspiration} and Hof {home}. Please check back often to see new developments. Green Sense is going to be the official homepage of Wodhof Farmstead. I will be posting pics, videos, and articles about our projects and other things of interest here.