tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8416923201642990454.post6589744549393035481..comments2024-03-27T20:32:42.461-05:00Comments on Lillie House Permaculture: In Danger of Falling Food - Kalamazoo EditionMichael Hoaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15728642724953659658noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8416923201642990454.post-77818206185450196932015-10-20T14:49:23.555-05:002015-10-20T14:49:23.555-05:00This is a great blog post. I am glad that there i...This is a great blog post. I am glad that there is an examination of permaculture. Discussion grows better understanding of the principles and the past of permaculture. Some day I should share the chestnut failures I have had. PTAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06213410065845701316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8416923201642990454.post-86839835707829180612015-10-17T20:07:40.874-05:002015-10-17T20:07:40.874-05:002,000 lbs/ acre seems to be a general consensus yi...2,000 lbs/ acre seems to be a general consensus yield for chestnuts. Some sources report numbers as high as 7,000 lbs / acre, or higher, but others say this is only common in an exceptional year, and that 2,200 is a better average figure. <br /><br />Thanks for catching the ambiguity and the typo. I'm working against a very buggy version of the Blogger app, and some compatibility issues between platforms that leave each post a mess when I publish it. In fact, couldn't even get through this comment without reloading the app 3 times.... sheesh. Gotta love app-based computing. Michael Hoaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15728642724953659658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8416923201642990454.post-49227543496207426532015-10-17T16:22:03.395-05:002015-10-17T16:22:03.395-05:00Great story, I can't wait for more food to sta...Great story, I can't wait for more food to start raining from the sky at my place. I've put a lot of faith in chestnuts and hazelnuts as a staple crop at my garden, devoting the better part of an acre to Chestnuts being the dominant overstory, with maybe 30 trees in total (I plan to coppice some of those, esp. if they turn out not to bear many nuts). I've got 50+ hazels growing, but will coppice some of those as well, esp. the "wild" varieties which bear lightly compared to the hybrids.<br /><br />One clarification, in this sentence, what's the unit of area we're talking about, per acre? <br /><br /><em>In the case of a chestnuts, an orchard produces over 2,000 lbs of nuts per year.</em>PJ Chmielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13172487759311264254noreply@blogger.com