... wood chips in the food forest. Ditched the wheelbarrow to see if I could capture her beauty and she just hung out letting me take a few shots. Didn’t fly away. I enjoyed her for a few moments and then

... the food forest, this is the “English Lavender.” We are also growing “French Lavender.” We will infuse the lavender into MCT carrier oil as shown in previous appics posts. It smells soooooo good! I’m

... some wild goji berry with ripe berries. There are 3 types of wild Goji growing in the southwest deserts. This one looks like Lycium andersonii to me but it could be L. cooperi or L. pallidum too. Hard

... These are peculiar fruits...at the younger stage of growth! Beautiful shape!! Almost hard to spot them on the trees because they just blend in with the foliage. We love the fuyu persimmon variety!

... We have grown many types of goji and they are not all equal! Most varieties are thinly loaded with berries. But not...THIS variety!! It is called “Phoenix Tears”....and it grows in a willowing manner

... growing super fast and fresh heads are ready for our drying rack consistently. As shown in previous appics posts, after drying, we then infuse the dried flowers into a MCT carrier oil. We then use

... grow the worms in large compost tumblers and stackable towers(in the background)...and harvest their castings every week or so. We then...spread this black gold around all our young fruit trees and

... flowers on this one tree. Should be a great harvest this year! Organic pommies go for about three bucks a pop in our local stores so this is a money tree lol! She’s about 11 years old now and just

... greeted with ripe cherries as we entered the food forest this morning. :)) I Nibbled one in half...so you can see the creamy orange inner flesh. Soooo delicious! These Ranier types are my favorite

... have subsided and the clouds have parted in Southern Utah! We greeted the opportunity to soak up some sun and enjoy the clear water. The rains rose the lake water substantially and we are seeing lots

... for a few days so I haven’t been able to work much in the food forest. We had a brief moment of sun...so I ran out to capture some of the fruits/nuts as they are soaking up the sun and rain. These

... revious appics posts, how we infuse garden botanicals into a carrier oil like mct oil. Many have asked what some of our final products look like...so here’s an example. This is a warming balm...and

Good evening @dtube community and Steem Blockchain! The sun is close to setting here in S. Utah and I just thought I'd share the mulberry trees with you. We have many types of mulberry tree growing throughout

... dtube video in a few hours after we finish our garden work. I’m just blown away by the size, beauty and tastiness of these fruit. I’ll post a link below of where you can learn more about these genetics.

... .playing in the food forest, finding bugs and flowers to play with and smell. Behind him, over the block wall are almond trees..bursting with almonds. Surrounding his feet are sunchokes, stawberries,

... food/medicine! We eagerly await their readiness every year at this time. We enjoy just sucking on them as we walk around the garden and we also put them into our drinking water. One other way we extract

... between Bing and Van cherry. We are also growing Bing and Van to cross pollinate each other. This is BY FAR...my favorite cherry! I’ll capture more images as they ripen. The outer skin becomes a marbling

... used organic MCT oil. This is the third image post in a row on this topic and a follow up to the last post we showed of the extraction process. After infusion we then strain through a cheese cloth

... featured in our last photo post that we had harvested and hung for drying. Now that they are dry..we are using a double boiler on a digital stove top for precise temp control and bringing the oil up

... infuse them into MCT oil. When we have the rose infused oil we will then make rose body butter and moisturizer. This is one of my favorite parts of gardening! The alchemy of using the plant botanicals