Thank you! I started clearing a few paths, and that should give me a way to roam the property a bit to analyze it. Mosquitoes were way worse than expected, but it's still manageable, so hopefully I'll be done before autumn. (on a side note, battery tools nowadays are really on another level!)
I've also discovered a few communities and sellers of ancient varieties of plants and trees, so I might get a nursery going and go trough some trial and error to see what grows where :)
When in doubt, walk the property. Every day the sun tracks a different arc across the ground. You need to identify microbiomes around the trees and start piecing together what plants will be happy with four hours or morning sun vs three hours of evening. What can tolerate full sun in the summer but shade in the spring and fall.
You also need to figure out when the canopy closes on each tree. There are many spring ephemerals that can get their growing season in before the shade becomes a problem, and other plants that can get well along in those conditions as well.
There’s an evergreen fruit bush indigenous to my area, and I’ve planted it where I expect the deciduous trees to fill in. If I were younger I’d just wait to plant them. But they grow okay from seeds and I’m working on my cuttings skills so even if they’re wrong I can just start over.
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