Started my food forest last spring.

• Put down cardboard and covered in alder woodchips
• Planted a couple each of grape, blueberries, olive, marionberry, sichuan peppercorn, green tea - basically trying things out and seeing what works in my climate

Was pleasantly surprised when I got out there this year, and everything made it through the winter! (Albeit some appears to be a popular graze with the deer - could slow growth down a lot if I don’t protect soon)

Pulling weeds out of sheetmulched woodchips is great - so easy even though the soil underneath is overly compacted clay sand.