Gardens – Wind Spirit Community (new)

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.

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.

Fruit & Nut Trees

Fruit & Nut Trees	Fruit & Nut Trees	Native and others

Almond Apple Crab Apple Golden Del Apple Green Apple Yellow Apple Rose Apricot Barlet Pears Black Walnut Carob Cherries Bing Date Palm English Walnut Figs Brown Turkey Figs Black mission Figs Yellow Goji berryGrapefruit Pink Grapefruit Ruby Reds Grapefruit White Grapes Concord Grapes Red seedlessGuava Pineapple Guava Strawberry Jujube Kumquat Lemon Ponderosa Lemon common Lemon meyer Lemon Orange Lime Limequat Loquat	Nectarine Orange Blood Orange Navel Orange pink Navel Orange Valencia Orange Wrinkled Olives (black) Peach Early spring yellow Peach White elephant Peach Orange Peach Indian Red Pears Apple Pears Asian Persimmon Oriental Persimmon Kaki Pakistan mulberryPink MulberryPistachio nuts Plum Italian Plum Japanese Plum Santa Rosa Plum yellow Plumcot Pomegranate Red Pomegranate Granada Purple Mulberry Quince Apple Tangelos Tangerines White Zapote	AcaciaAgave- Multiple veritiesAloe Multiple verities Bamboo Multiple verities Barrel CactusBlue Spruce Butterfly BushesCholla cactusHedgehog cactusItalian Cyprus Fan Palms Juniper Magnolia Pines Multiple verities Roses Multiple verities Saguaro Cactus Tobacco (wild) Bottle brush Texas Mt Laurel Blue Paloverde Foothill Paloverde Chaparral Mesquite Cat Claw Jojoba Indian Hathorne Hackberry Wolfberry Ocotillio Prickly pear Night blooming cactus Mormon tea Soap tree yucca San Pedro cactus

Photos top to bottomLarge Solar Dehydratorinside greenhouseSunflowerGreenhouse doorThat is one large grapefruit2010 Garden Tomato’s bamboo racks2010 Garden Tomato’s closeupGarden June 2010Garden June 2010Sprout HouseSprout house insideAmy growing sproutsCollecting Saguaro cactus fruits (7)