2024 Portfolio

I was inspired to do this design for a couple in Yarmouth looking to become self-sufficent and intersuffient with three acres, including gardening their lakefront with freshwater edible plants for different depths.

An illustration of different edible plants at different fresh water depth horizons. The table is as following: Moist ground Asparagus, joe pye weed, boneset, canada holly, Rhexia, Geum, Black Elder,New Jersey Tea, Skirret, Labrador tea Water's edge, land side Cranberry, Typha, Watercress, cloudberry Water's edge water side vervein, Calamus, Blue Flag, Marsh Marigold Lake sunlit bottom Nuphar, Sagittaria Shady lake bottom Wild Rice
Edible plants for different depths of freshwater
The differences between chestnuts. American chestnuts are native, endangered, subject to a fatal blight, and Nova Scotia is currently a blight-free zone. They have more flavourful but smaller nuts. Chinese, European, and Japanese chestnuts have larger and blander nuts, like in the store. They are not native but are introduced. They can carry fatal chestnut blight. If you plant a chestnut in the Maritimes, please inform the Canadian Chestnut Council.
Differences between American and other chestnuts will affect which you want to plant

https://halifaxearth.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/20240726-Janice-report.pdf

A woman in Beaverbank moved into a subdivision and wanted to renaturalize the landscape and reduce maintenance. We sheet mulched and planted with walnut, sugar Maple, Sumac, Dogwood Tamarack striped maple, Aronia, hazelnut, Saskatoon berry, blueberry, butterfly weed, boneset raspberries, sunchokes and blackberries.

The before and after of a garden bed in which trees are planted and grass is replaced with sheet-mulch.
The before and after of a garden bed in which trees are planted and grass is replaced with sheet-mulch.
The before and after of a garden bed in which trees are planted and grass is replaced with sheet-mulch.

To get rid of goutweed, we rebuilt this stone raised bed.

A series of photos show a before and after of a pile of rocks becoming the rock wall which is edging a garden bed. subsequent photos show closeups of hostas, azalea, geraniums and dogwood.