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Hello everyone, this is my first post here. I’d like to ask you about the placement of things in this project.

• It is a 2,000m2 lot (43x45m approx)
• The sun rises in the east and sets in the west. The house is oriented to north to have better sunlight

The idea is to make a small house and make a food forest. While I want to make a food forest I also want it to be a nice place to spend time with friends and enjoy the garden. And the possibility of using fruit trees near to the house for e.g as ornamental plants

My fear is the shadow that certain trees can create when they grow and I wouldn’t want to deprive some fruit trees or a vegetable garden of too much light. Where do you recommend planting non-fruit trees?

For now I made this design with the things I have to plant (image below).

• Fruit trees: apple, orange, fig, lemon, peach, plum. And an olive tree, which I don’t know where to locate as an ornamental.
• Ginko biloba tree
• I have a Jacaranda that is a beautiful tree but I don’t think it would work very well for this project since is a big tree like ginko biloba and I wouldn’t know where to put it.

What do you think ?

• Would you locate the house somewhere else?
• Since I think the space behind the house would be shaded all day, I thought I’d use it as a place to relax with bambu plants or make a small storage space.
• I’d like to make a small pond, but I don’t know where to put it. It’s probably somewhere I can enjoy it most of the day, maybe near the vegetable garden ?

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Hi Y’all 🙂 Today I wanted to share a landscaping design that saves water for you and for those in need! its called a Swale. I’ll attach a video link above 👆 Have a good day 🌱

The problem: Everyone wants to know “how to kill” various predators like spider mites. If you’ve started at least dabbling in permaculture, you know the food web and how everything has a role—even pests like these. The best approach is almost always to find another way—after all, something eats those spider mites, and it’s also part of the food web.

The solution I’ve heard about: If you can use a light touch and leave them be as much as possible while building your soil and ecosystem, predators will discover them and balance their numbers out. In fact, I’ve read that often it’s just a matter of seasonality: One year’s weather will be balanced by the next, and the insects that thrive this year may be overrun and/or balanced out by all the predator larvae that hatch next spring, etc.

NEW problem: Like soil science, it’s incredibly complicated to understand how these processes of predation, life cycle, soil deficiencies, and balance all line up. Basically, I can’t find any credible sources or methods to accompany the “let it be” method of pest management. If I want to let the spider mites be (and I do!), is there any kind of method or protocol I can follow other than inaction? No matter how hard I look, all I can find are anecdotes, like: “I just let them alone, and next year there weren’t as many.” That’s all well and good—and there’s nothing wrong with learning from the shared experiences of others—but it’s not reproducible (everyone’s situation is different) or verifiable. Has anyone here found non-anecdotal methodology for letting pests do their thing and building the ecosystem around them to bring balance? General guidance that goes beyond simple inaction?