They wanted a large orchard plum-full of all sorts of delicious fruit, as well as vegies and chickens and drought-proofing for the whole place, fire-proofing etc. Ro and I came along for the day as Cam took his students from the permaculture diploma course at Eltham College to do some prac about fencing and irrigation at the property.
Here's Cam laying out a "skirt" of chicken wire at the bottom of the fence, which will be buried, so foxes can't dig under the fence into the orchard, where the chooks will be roaming and feasting on fallen fruit and insects, and dropping poo as fertiliser:
The top of the fence is angled out, and deliberately loose, so foxes can't climb over it:
The skirt being buried:
The students tacking the fence to the poles (orchard swales in background):
Meanwhile, Yarrow just adjusting the mirror and getting ready to drive us home at the end of the day:
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oh we are planning a covered orchard at the moment - foxes and way too many birds - we can almost no fruit last year! and the chooks need more room as well...
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