The close of the first summer since we purchased the property is only a week away. This first year of starting the orchard also turned...

Construction of the French drain continues. Chris had 10 yards of 2-inch drainage rock delivered. She lined the ditch with fabric cloth...

This photo shows the first full 140 feet of French drain ditch. Tomorrow we'll lay fabric drainage cloth inside the ditch. Corrugated 4...

Today Chris finished digging 140 feet of French drain. It took 50 to 60 hours with the Kubota, plus some extra hours of manual digging...

The first photo shows a partial cross section of rows of young chestnut trees during their first summer in the orchard. Spacing is 20...

It's an interesting time to be starting an orchard on the Olympic Peninsula. We took this photo yesterday from nearby Dungeness National...

These photos taken from the orchard this week show the sky at evening twilight during the Paradise and British Columbia wildfires....

This blog begins in an effort to track the evolution of a piece of property we call Dungenss Chestnuts. It's an adventure, an experiment,...