Tree house Tree
This big old pine used to be home to a simple deer stand. It also happens to live at the entrance to the future food forest. You can see the old gate post laying on the ground in the front of the before picture. Just through that old gate is the turn around that was cleaned up in a previous post. Three strands of barbed wire still run from the tree off to the right. This morning I cleared out some younger pines, a couple of miscellaneous hardwood trees that just happened to be living in the wrong place at the wrong time and a lot of little privet shoots from the tree house area. In the after picture, from left to right, Meredithe, Amelia and Carley are marking the corners of a rectangle of pines that I left for possible supports for a raised deck area off of the tree house. Additional supports will almost certainly be necessary, but having the live trees on the corners would really be beautiful. I realize it's a fairly large area, but if you're going to dream, you might as well dream big.
