yea, we have a house and the total property is about 2. 5 acres. The front section on the road is about 1 acre and is the house lot, we have a small raised bed and that is about it so far. The back half of the property is to the south and leaves more than an acre just wooded, so - that's where I'm starting with some food forest conversion work. This is a pic of the area where I'm starting, several large tress blew down here in the last few years, and then I followed that up with cutting out some of the smaller trees; well some is probably around 20 or so - 4-8 inch diameter trunks. I think some of this area will get a good 4 or 5 hours of direct sunlight through the middle of the day. This is toward the east side of the property looking sort of southwest, but a little more west than south.
I've seen quite a few threads on various forums about people wondering how to work a food forest into existing forest - so, my plan is to sort of use this cleared/open area as sort of a nursery to see what I can get to grow out there, then as I clear out more trees I can expand that out into other areas, until I get to a point where I'm satisfied with the opening and can get fruit and nut trees going - am a long way from that - probably years. The trees are just staring to leaf out so, in a couple weeks all the sunlight you see in this pic will mostly be gone, but for the area say in the first 50 feet of the picture.
