Jackie's Tiny House B & B
Our yard is an extra large urban one with a tiny house bed & breakfast in the backyard. In the front, we installed a large mulch bed when our giant poplar tree had to be removed – it's a combination of some food-producing plants, plus flowers and shrubs for habitat/visual effect. There's also a small raspberry and veggie patch specifically for the community to harvest from ("share the surplus" and "people care"). In the backyard, we have two annual vegetable areas – a raised bed and a larger in-ground area with clover pathways. Perennial food plants include apples, raspberries, saskatoons, haskaps, currants, sea buckthorn, cherries, asparagus, rhubarb, herbs, and more. There is a hugel bed and a small passive solar greenhouse, rain barrels, and plants that serve several functions (pollination, medicine, food, beauty, nutrient accumulation, etc.). Throughout the development of our backyard and building of the tiny house (also passive solar design), we often employed the permaculture principles of stacking functions and using and valuing resources. There are still so many ways in which we could expand and improve the functioning of our yard system, but it's been successful so far in giving us a good yield of food, beauty, income, and social interaction.
Our yard is an extra large urban one with a tiny house bed & breakfast in the backyard. In the front, we installed a large mulch bed when our giant poplar tree had to be removed – it's a combination of some food-producing plants, plus flowers and shrubs for habitat/visual effect. There's also a small raspberry and veggie patch specifically for the community to harvest from ("share the surplus" and "people care"). In the backyard, we have two annual vegetable areas – a raised bed and a larger in-ground area with clover pathways. Perennial food plants include apples, raspberries, saskatoons, haskaps, currants, sea buckthorn, cherries, asparagus, rhubarb, herbs, and more. There is a hugel bed and a small passive solar greenhouse, rain barrels, and plants that serve several functions (pollination, medicine, food, beauty, nutrient accumulation, etc.). Throughout the development of our backyard and building of the tiny house (also passive solar design), we often employed the permaculture principles of stacking functions and using and valuing resources. There are still so many ways in which we could expand and improve the functioning of our yard system, but it's been successful so far in giving us a good yield of food, beauty, income, and social interaction.
