Well I decided to go ahead and make up a bee forage mix with tons of different herbs and flowers. Since I didn’t have any dandelion or burdock to add I just used this forage plot mix to help pull minerals up to the top of the ground. I’m trying to increase the water holding capacity of the fields and adding plants with large taproots will help with this. As the roots die they will rot and allow smaller cover crop roots to take over the holes they leave. This increases the root depth of cover crops and perennial plants as the years go by and in a few years, we have deep rich topsoil. This is an experiment but I’m sure it will work out the way it will work out. We used this mixture of seeds in two locations. One for apple trees and one for fuyu persimmons. #plantfoods #foodplots #beefood #plantforbees #beeplants #pollinators #pollinatorswelcome #animalforage #deerforage #prograze #peacefulvalleyseeds #outsideprideseeds #moretrees #permaculture #experimentalplanting #hickorync #appleorchards #fuyupersimmon #persimmons #notillgardening #notill #orchardexperiment #nc #wnc #foothillsnc #catawbacountync https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu2UI4mAQJO/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1dk6ltqyj48oh