I understand that if you’re in the market to start your own homesteading orchard that it’s probably not in the budget to just buy 2 or 3 of each of the plants mentioned in this book.
In all honesty I don’t even have all of these plants any more. I left half of them back at my old property when I moved north into the wilderness.
So let’s imagine for a moment that you’re in a situation like the one I faced a few years back. I moved deep into the wild on the edge of forest, with 10 acres of sandy soil to work with and shallow aquifers teamed with rain barrels drawing from the barn roof for water.
Let’s also say you had a budget of around $300 to get yourself started.
Let’s also use the numbers from my favorite on-line fruit vendor’s catalog to help guide the example. Other than some berry plants, they sell most trees as bareroot plants.