Xorkoth
Bluelight Crew
GROW PAW-PAWS AND PERSIMMON- native fruit trees to NY/NJ. They are extremely tasty and productive and perennial. You should also check out sea buckthorn, siberian pea shrub, serviceberry. These woody shrubs are cheap and take little to no maintenance after planting!!!!! They are also already part of the ecosystems in the said area. Try modeling your garden based on the way nature is modeled around you- so using a forest for a model rather than raised beds (since forests are the most mature and thus most diverse and balanced ecosystem in our area)- it allows for more diversity, more food, and more productivity. This works WAYYYY BETTER than intensive gardening where you constantly weed and go against the tao of nature.
Yeah, we live in the forest and we're basing our garden off the forest. The forest here in the Appalachians is extremely verdant and diverse already so we don't even have to do anything to make it beautiful and colorful and diverse... it already is! I've been starting every day with gardening... check out all the new plants, see how much they've grown... check out the 50 or so new trees that seem to grow at least an inch per day if not a lot more. And water whatever needs it. My wife will probably wake up in about an hour and we'll go outside to do that. Then about lunch time we'll go to the local plant nursery and get some supplies.

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