Today we went out for Small Business Saturday. I noticed that a downtown pocket park, which has been slowly developing for some years, had a small light display. (The town's main light display is in a much bigger park but wasn't turned on yet when we went past.) So I stopped to take some pictures.

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Almost everything in the Charleston Food Forest is something I'm growing, would like to grow, or at least recognize from edible plant studies. So I thought it would be fun to break that down, listed in approximate spatial order moving through the lists of pictures ...

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This concludes the tour of the Charleston Food Forest. (See Part 1: Right Front. Part 2: Right Back, Part 3: Left Back.)

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This continues the tour of the Charleston Food Forest. (See Part 1: Right Front. Part 2: Right Back.)

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This continues the tour of the Charleston Food Forest.  (See Part 1: Right Front.)

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My partner Doug spotted this place recently, and today we explored the Charleston Food Forest and its plants.  (See Part 2 Right Back, Part 3: Left Back, Part 4 Left Front, and What I'm Growing.)  It's a skinny rectangle, and not all that big.  If you cut it in half and lined the halves up as a square, then it would fit in a typical town yard ( Read more... )

Our new garden shed arrived today!  :D 3q3q3q!!! I'm so excited.  It's made by Everlast, which has distributors in a bunch of places around central Illinois.

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I took these pictures in the afternoon, after we cleaned up the old mulch pile.

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I took these pictures while walking back toward the house.

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These pictures show the prairie garden.

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