Our agroforestry is mostly experimental at this point, and is somewhat inspired by the diversified agroforestry systems used by smallholder farmers in Central America. Our primary motivation in establishing agroforestry was to conserve and protect habitat, but we also see it as critical adaptation to climate change and as a long-term strategy for profitability for small diversified farming.

We have planted a mixture of shrubbier, faster growing "understory" species and larger, slower growing "canopy" species. Species planted include: Aronia, Chestnut (mostly American or American hybrid, but also some Chinese and European), Crabapple, Elderberry, Hazelnut (hybrids), Hickory (shagbark, shellbark; I don't think any of the pecans survived), Mulberry, Oak (various including black, white, burr, chinkapin), American Persimmon, American Plum, Red mulberry, Redbud, Alleghany Serviceberry, Black walnut.

We purchased the property in 2017. Previously it had been in the same family for over 100 years and was used to grow a variety of vegetable and row crops. The land is very flat (was the shore of Lake Erie 13K years ago), loamy sand. Located a couple miles south of Detroit Wayne Metro airport, the area was once all farmland and is being increasingly gobbled up by conversion to housing developments/country estates.