Cup plant is taking over in the food forest so I am transplanting as much as I can out to the swales in the silvopasture where we graze the sheep. The swales are already planted with apples, pear, peach, plum and cherry. There is hazelnut, black locust, chinquapin, in-between the fruit trees and asparagus, horseradish, rhubarb, comfrey and strawberry planted in-between the trees. The hazelnut and now this cup plant is intended to be more food for the sheep. The hope is that they prefer to eat these plants rather than abuse the young fruit trees. I might have to wait one more year for things to establish before I stop excluding the perennials from the sheep paddocks. Going to play it by ear this season and experiment with letting them graze on these swales for a day or two here and there. #permaculture #permies #grownostr #perennials #swale #silvopasture #gardening #homesteading