Market Farming

["Michaele Blakely" <mjb AT premier1.net>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Suzy Roth <suzyr AT netos.com>
To: market farming <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 12:12 PM
Subject: Re: My research...(was Re: Orchards and fruit trees)


> >I will be planting other fruit - strawberries, blackberries, blueberries,
> but not in the "orchard".
>
> I wouldn't dismiss planting a variety of crops around your fruit
> trees. On my trip to Italy last fall I was struck by the mix of crops
> in the Italian countryside. Grapes and olive trees grew in rows side
> by side with the family garden growing down the middle of a few wide
> rows.

I have berries and grapes planted around the perimeter of an orchard I
started last year and am planning on putting my greens crops between the
trees.  I had broiler chickens there last year getting things readied.  I
had forgotten until Suzy showed me pictures of the gardens in Italy that
when I was a child my family planted lettuce and like vegetables in the
shade of the orchards during the summer.  This was in the foothills of the
Sierras and while here in the maritime northwest I don't have to worry about
heat I do want to utilize space.

Michaele
Growing Things
Carnation WA