Farm Harvesting Heights: Designing Orchards on Sloped Land Harvesting Heights: Designing Orchards on Sloped Land When we first looked at our hillside orchard site, we knew the beautiful views came with unique challenges. Hillsides complicate everything—water runoff, soil erosion, equipment mobility, and planting logistics. Here’s how we tackled orchard design on our slope, and what we
Farm Beyond the Hose: Engineering Resilient Irrigation on Our Hillside Orchard We're building a smart, modular irrigation system to support young chestnuts on steep hillsides. With limited well water, variable terrain, and high stakes, we're blending drip tech, gravity tanks, and real-time soil sensors to irrigate wisely and grow resiliently.
Nuts Layer by Layer: Designing a Stacked Orchard for Resilience and Yield We’re building an ecosystem, not just rows. Inspired by forest structure and regenerative design, our layered orchard ensures every plant has a role, every root a purpose, and the harvest is shared between the land and those who tend it.
Community Featured Planting a Vision at Goldberry Grove: Your Guide to Get Going Goldberry Grove’s Roadmap: Understanding What, Who & Where We Are – a regenerative agroforestry orchard in Appalachian WV, led by Abigail & Josh Dunbar. We blend family tradition with regenerative methods, chestnut restoration trials, mycoforestry, and community building.
Farmer-stories May Day Thoughts People love to romanticize farming. They see the photos: the sunrise over the pasture, the hands in the soil, the happy kid chasing chickens. It looks simple. It looks peaceful. But the reality — especially when you’re farming part-time — is a lot messier than that. I work a remote 9–
Farm April Tales from the Grove We planted 100 trees, fought rocks, battled an old knee injury, and celebrated a toddler’s birthday in a month. April was muddy, meaningful, and full of lessons that only a bucket, a shovel, and a stubborn farmer can learn.
Farm Time Budgets, Bent Metal, and Learning the Land: The Unexpected Education of a First-Time Korean-American Farmer in Appalachia From PTO struggles to sudden frost, here's what I’ve learned about tractors, trailers, and time as a first-time farmer transitioning from tech to trees.
Budgeting The Boring Side of Farming (That’ll Make or Break You) Building a farm isn’t just soil and sunshine. From LLC decisions to family legacy planning, here’s how we’re setting Goldberry Grove up for long-term resilience—paperwork and all.
