Starting by preparing a hazelnut snack (not home-grown, bought from co-op sourced from organic orchard in Turkey). 
Deskinning hazelnuts for sweeter flavor: Roasted for ~10min at 350F, poured into napkin in bowl, then rubbed warm nuts free of their skins. 
Pouring out skinned, warm roasted hazelnuts (careful not to dump skins in the bowl too!) Good snack ? 
Cart of gear to go grow! 
A view of the front field plantings, including some of the front nursery beds. 
A series of mucky riparian planting mounds. 
Tree tubing bear root tree. 
Staking tree tube 
Peace 
Visiting the pond en route to other mounds needing work. 
3-pool pond, with 2 pools dug out the day before. 
Pond tree 
Fine scale pond topography 
Chestnut vandalized by deer, getting a tree tube and more mulch. 
Tree tube worked gently into a few mm of soil, then covering it with some mulch. This is meant to keep small mammals from getting under it. 
A view of the front field plantings, mulched and tree tubed after today’s work. 
Loading up for last few tasks as sun sets. 
Twilight tasks 
W for Willows, that offer one edge for agroforest expansion – on this site (“Willows Edge”) and beyond!
[…] This is a test post. I’m This is a test post, beginning an exciting series. I’m starting to post media from an agroforestry project I describe on the Willows Edge Agroforest page. I’m exploring an embedded-Facebook album post in this post, as compared with a WordPress-based gallery (as in this other post). […]