- GARDENS & FRUIT TREES
- Fruit & Nut Trees
- VEGETABLE GARDENS
- We use only organic methods for growing our fruit and nut trees as well as
the vegetable gardens, Most everything here is planted from organic sources including many heirloom
seeds. We live in a remote area so there is little chance of cross
pollination from other gardens or commercial GMO garden sources. We collect
our seeds at the end of each growing cycle for next years planting and
have a variety of flower, herbs and vegetables. There are several
food dehydrators where we can dry our excess foods.
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We
have very good soil for gardening. At times we need to add sulphur because of the high caliche/alkaline
properties. We have also integrated a product called EM (effective
microorganism) This is a beneficial liquid that breaks down
compost and in small doses enhances plant growth by encouraging
beneficial organisms as well as moisture holding properties to our soil.
We also raise earthworms to digest lots of compost. One of the best advantages of living at
this elevation (2750') and having protection from the mountains surrounding our valley is the year round
planting cycles.
- FRUIT AND NUT TREES
- Wind
Spirit has over 90 varieties of organic fruit and nut trees
(see list below), We have
hundreds of mature organic fruit and nut trees and add new trees every year. This
amount of trees and plant life within a small area creates a large somewhat
self supporting plant
biomass. Our trees are not planted in traditional
orchard rows but planted in a way that it feels more like a forest than an
orchard and all the varieties are planted interspersed with each other and the
native trees scattered over our lower land area. In the spring we get
peaches, loquats, carob, mulberries, and still more citrus. In the summer we
have many stone
fruits such as peaches, apricots, plums, nectarines, apples, cherries, and
others such as guavas, almonds, mulberries, grapes, figs, and more. In the
fall we have more figs, peaches, pears, pomegranates, and walnuts. All this creates a constant year round harvest both from
vegetable gardens and fruit trees.