This video is part 2 of the weekly food forest tour for 3/8/20.
It looks like a good amount of the peach blossoms have survived the cold weather. There aren’t a lot of flowers on the first larger peach tree, but it’s interesting that its rootstock has a pretty large amount for its size. The second larger peach tree has a lot more flowers than the first.
Some of the peach trees have been starting to put on a little green growth. The seedling peach tree has put on the most so far. It’ll be interesting to see of it is the first to put on green growth next year when it starts hopefully flowering at that time. The larger first peach tree was right behind it. It makes me think that the seedling may be from that tree.
I’m planning to mound up around the plum tree located under the seedling peach tree, so that it will hopefully put down some of its own roots and I can remove a few of the rooted branches that will become own root plum trees.
During this time of year, when the weather is cooler and wetter, I plan to try to leave the mini dams of the food forest pools lower, so that more water can freely flow through the pools and other areas of the food forest. In the Summer and Fall, when the weather is very hot and seems to be a little drier if not more infrequent between rains, I will most likely raise the dam height so that it will mostly fill up all the pools to their fullest before they overflow into the lower portions of the food forest. This will help trap and hold more moisture during the hottest and driest portions of the year when water escapes more quickly from the landscape.
I almost went for a swim! 
I’ve added small mounds of soil around most of the fruit trees. I think gotten past the half way point, and hope to finish the rest soon. I don’t have any mulch on hand right now, so I’m trying to spread some seed on them to get something growing on the new mounds as soon as possible.
The orange/rusty colored flower buds are really swelling on the pear trees, and will probably produce some flowers really soon.
The rootstock/seedling? part of the pear tree is producing its first flower buds this year, so it should be really interesting to see what those pears are like. It has grown really fast, in about 3 or 4 years it has grown to be about 15 feet tall or higher.