Double Bottom Plow Carbon Farming Black Locust Nut Trees Diverse Cover Crops
Channel: Food Forest Farm
Date: 2019-06-19

Over the next two years I'm establishing a carbon farm, wood lot, starting with an eleven species cover crop into plowed, tilled, and mineralized soil. One to Five acres will be established, previously a 20 year old organic grain crop and pasture field. This first year, eight, 150 foot by 4 foot wide rows, are planted to cover crops:

sunflower, cow pea, oats, radish, field pea, sorghum, Phacelia, Crimson Clover, buckwheat, sweet alyssum, Ethiopian kale

Trees: Black locust, improved black walnut, English walnut, hybrid chestnut, improved hickory, hybrid hazel nut, improved honey locust

Minerals: rock phosphate, calcium sulfate, dolomitic lime, magnesium sulfate, biochar, zinc, borax, copper, sulfur

Ultimately the goal is to thin the Black Locust in the first five to ten years for fence posts and polls. Then the remaining strait locust will grow into hight quality timber. As the locust are coming in the nut trees will mature and after 10 years be producing large crops of high quality valuable nuts for food and for sale.