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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Permaculture Orchards

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Education, Home & Garden, How To, Leisure

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Carol Connare just moved to a new property in New Hampshire and in turn inherited a half acre permaculture forest. From hardy kiwis to raspberries, persimmons to paw paws, this new project poses plenty of excitement! With an added vegetable garden, abundance is in order.
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Carol Connare is the editor of The Old Farmer's Almanac, an annual publication devoted to growing and knowing. She is the 14th editor in the publication's history and only the second woman to hold the post. She is an avid gardener of flowers, herbs, and vegetables.
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0:18.0

What happens when you've got some space and you want to start a big orchard? Well, we are talking to Carol Canaire.

0:20.0

She's the editor of the Old Farmers Almanac, which is the oldest publication in North America.

0:25.0

She's a 14th editor in the publication's history.

0:28.0

And you were just saying, Carol, that you kind of have a new life, I guess, right? You're moving to a new new property it sounds like I am it's

0:36.0

exciting I'm I feel like I'm inheriting someone's project it's a this guy Brian has been working on this permaculture

0:45.6

orchard for about 12 years and so it does have a house but most of us don't

0:50.1

really care about that part of it. So yeah, it's about a half acre and it's got

0:55.0

many things I'm familiar with and a few that I am not.

0:59.0

But things like a hardy kiwi, so we don't get, you know, the regular kiwi here, but a hardy kiwi so we don't get you know the regular kiwi here but a hardy kiwi and this this thing has gone wild.

1:06.7

So that's been an over-producer. Tons of raspberries and blueberries. We have and inva- I don't know if you have autumn olive where you are.

1:15.8

It's an invasive species around here, but there's a cultivar in this orchard that isn't invasive, so that's good.

1:24.0

Persimmon, paw, paw, cherry, Asian pear, English pear,

1:31.0

currents, erroneousokeberry.

1:35.9

So a lot of a tune tree, have you ever heard of a tune tree?

1:39.0

It puts out little green leaves

1:41.0

that you can eat in the spring. It's an Asian tree and

1:47.2

Mulberry, Nettle, come free, goji berry, goomy berry.

1:52.2

Wow. And this is all, so whereabouts in the states are you?

1:57.1

This is in New Hampshire.

1:58.1

New Hampshire, okay, and then how much space are you on now?

2:01.0

This is only a half acre. All that's in a half acre. Yes and it's

2:05.2

completely developed the whole half acre and then there's also a nice annual

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