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Upon reading Gaia's Garden in June, I caught a serious case of wanting to permaculture my backyard. I've put woodchips in pathways in order to stop fighting weeds, have built three new beds that I'm loading with layers of compostables, have sheet-mulched a 10'x12' just outside the dripline of a HUGE bitternut hickory, will try to plant things that may fit into a food forest category, things like edible dogwood, Asian persimmon, berries, goumi, onions, garlic, artichoke. Any other suggestions?
The only crop that's truly happy in my yard is blueberries, so I'll dig up several babies from the mother plant and start them in different places.
My backyard soil is pH 5.8, so I'm adding lots of lime to the beds that will host vegetables.
I'm dying to grow decent tomatoes!! And will trellis cukes and melons next summer.
I have read Mollison and Holmgren and believe that residential permaculture is the most politically active thing I can do in the face of current U.S. national and international policies.