Exploring Permaculture Weekend, New Life Retreat

Exploring Permaculture Weekend,
New Life Retreat Centre, May 21-23, 2005
Exploring Permaculture Weekend >Work Projects >Windmill Point Farm

Windmill Point Farm
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Windmill Point Farm is a beautiful 70 acre property on Ile Perrot, an island just 30 minutes from Montreal, Quebec. They specialize in organic and heirloom varities of exotic fruit and vegetable plants, seeds and trees adapted to cold climates. Their aim is to provide nursery stock that will yield a supply of local food year round, so they are the perfect place to shop when making a forest garden. We picked up a black raspberry bush, "Purple Passion" apple, mulberry, hartnut, seedless grape vine, male and female Kolomiki hardy kiwi vines.

Here Chas has planted a tree on the Southeastern side of the main house (below left). Another tree (below right) was planted facing south to maximize sun exposure.

This tree (below left) was planted in the apple orchard/campground behind the main house. Another tree (below right) planted in the orchard. If Chas continues to add trees, this area may in time become an edible forest garden.

Other projects we worked on included: a Willow Fence, Solar Shower, and Sheet Mulch Bed. Written by Anna Przychodzki (workshop participant, volunteer at the Sustainable Living Network)