Hopewell Food Forest

SEPTEMBER 2019: After root raking, smoothing, plowing. Rick Gaddy and his vintage machine. #hopewellfoodforest

SEPTEMBER 2019: The first is a called a root rake grapple (according to the Internet) although Rick Gaddy, the tractor operator, called it a roller scrape. When tines were rotated up, a solid panel was used to level out some of the largest clumps of clay (but there were plenty left). The second attachment is a moldboard plow, which is used with land that has not been under cultivation before. It cuts into and turns over the soil. #hopewellfoodforest

Amanda Gorman’s Earthrise poem may be the most eloquent expression of what we want to do with our food forest project. https://youtu.be/xwOvBv8RLmo #hopewellfoodforest