We planted haskap berry bushes today along one of our wet area edges with four

We planted haskap berry bushes today along one of our wet area edges with four varieties; Indigo, Tundra, Beauty, and Blizzard. I had a little help from the farm dog Bixby, who was absolutely convinced she was essential to the process.

Haskaps are one of those plants that just make sense on a permaculture farm. Cold-hardy, early-ripening, antioxidant-rich, and perfectly suited to saturated boggy ground that most fruiting shrubs can't handle. They're sometimes called honeyberries and the flavor hits somewhere between blueberry and tart cherry.

What makes this spot special is the story underneath it. When our family came to this land in 1999, this exact area was the farm junk pile. Broken glass, rusted metal, debris from decades of a different relationship with the land. Every farm had one. That was just the way things were done. We spent years cleaning it up, piece by piece, season by season.

Now it gets berry bushes.

That's the long game of regenerative farming. You inherit the consequences of old patterns, you do the remediation work quietly and without applause, and eventually the land starts to give back in ways that feel almost like forgiveness.

Bill Mollison said the greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production. We're doing that one planting at a time out here on 25 acres in Dover, PA.

Follow along. There's a lot more going in the ground this season.

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