Every year I put up my resolution / goals and see if I can reach them . This post is subsequently than common as I have been traveling as well as spending more time version and prepping for what looks to be a rocky year incoming .
Yes . This is a honorable time for prepping . This web site ai n’t called “ The Survival Gardener ” for nothing , right-hand ?
But enough about that . allow ’s leap in to this year ’s goals .
GOAL I: Get the 2nd edition ofCreate Your Own Florida Food Forestin print
The schoolbook is done but I still demand to organize the illustrators and illustrations and get them all finish up . This is going to be a with child book and should test quite useful to Florida gardener .
GOAL II: Create an Epic Spring Garden
As I wait for the cold to hand , I have been dreaming and plan my gardens for saltation . I need a name for the organisation of running food for thought forest seam I am creating . My garden in Grenada was the first test and turned out wonderfully .
What I project to do is to conform the system to a temperate climate and use different metal money for the high vertical share . Instead of banana tree and papaia , we ’ll have Nipponese persimmons , rabbiteye blueberry , cobnut and other temperate mintage . I also project to space my 4′ bed as much as 3′ apart to give the arrangement more outer space and sunshine .
We need a name for this system , though . It ’s almost like food forestry in strips . Fedges with veggies . Not the same as Syntropic Agriculture as it is n’t base on bananas and meticulous timing , but it ’s similar . Anyhow , I ’ll come up with a nerveless name . I ’m excited about the concept and I ’m working on getting a crowd of berry variety , small trees , shrubs , chopper and dip , veggie and blooms to mix in .
GOAL III: Re-Launch My Plant Nursery
Since I ’m now in Alabama , I suppose it ’ll have to be the “ Alabama Food Forests ” nursery now . But it ’s clock time . I involve a good source of body of work that is not tied to the net and I know I ’m well at running a little plant nursery .
Getting the infrastructure in place may take a bit of workplace as it ’s colder here than it was in Florida , but I do n’t think it will be too toilsome . A small greenhouse , some greenhouse fabric , some irrigation … plus I need to get license here and cipher out where some expert wholesalers are locate . It take body of work , but it ’s good work . I ’ve been spending too much time indoors anyhow .
GOAL IV: Become Proficient at Painting Portraits in Oil
This has nothing to do with horticulture , but I ’ve always been impressed with good portrait painters . It ’s something I need to improve . At the end of 2020 , I paint a couple of portrait , one of my little daughter and another of a acquaintance .
This year I need to improve my skill by canvass the old masters and working slowly in layers . Practice makes complete . Or at least … it make you good .
GOAL V: Get Back Into Shape
Building bighearted gardens and re - starting a plant nursery should facilitate with this . I hump , it ’s a very common and tiresome goal , but I am feeling less solid after almost a month of being sick in December . It was a stressful year and I need to get back into better wellness . Low - carb and heavy lifting seems to be the key .
Conclusion
Other than those five goals , I do n’t have much else . I am working on read through the entire Bible this year , plus I would wish to see Jack Broccoli II in print and I ’d also like to rack up a goal of 2,000lbs of food again , but everything is too up in the breeze and crazy to make a bunch of goals that I may or may not hit . Even the idea of have better at oil painting seems giddy this year , but perhaps it ’ll be a practiced break from prepping .
Do you have any goals for 2021 ?
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