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Family Life Community Orchard is a free service to the people of Fayetteville, NC. This organic permaculture garden is being developed by a small group of friends on the lodge grounds and with the support of WoodmenLife Chapter 60. Most of the fruit trees will planted in spring of 2023. Stay tuned!

At our house on Dartmouth Drive in Fayetteville, NC, I started cultivating a diverse collection of fruit and berry plants in 2016. It's still young and developing, but here's one look at what regenerative urban permaculture can be. From laying hens to deciduous wood chips, to plain old pines to all the weird and wonderful foods we grow, it's a soil-healing ecosystem in miniature. Although my main focus is on our bigger olive orchard in Wagram (30-40 minutes down the road), this ongoing home project is still very satisfying. I hope more people start doing something like this, especially here in North Carolina, to tackle local food insecurity, draw down more carbon from the atmosphere, and generally grow healthier and happier lives together.

Filmed at Fynghoed Olive Orchard in Wagram, NC, Amanda and Nate Crew introduce you to Crew Family Orchards (with some help from Jackson, Willy, and Luther). "The future is delicious."

The illustrator of The Peculiar Pecan Tree reads some portions of the book while sitting in the children's corner of City Center Gallery & Books in downtown Fayetteville. Get your copy at Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-peculiar-pecan-tree-nate-crew/1137518086 DeepRichDirt is a local, military veteran-owned business that independently publishes books by local authors.