most of my "edges" aren't really at the edge of my property lines..my west side
fence IS, but all my other edges are actually set back from the property line excepting the ditches and road edges..
our property on the west is a partially open field all the way to the road with spotty evergreen and alder trees, this is all completely used by the
deer and other wildlife..we do not plant it for crops..and our entire north 4 to 5 acres is a swampy woods that we also use very little for crops at this time, however we do have some seeded
apple trees and nut tree seedling in the woods and some wild berries and
mushrooms that grow there now.
part of the woods closer to our house will be planted as we are able to get to it..still only 7 years since our housefire we are still reestablishing closer to the house at this time, but the plan is to be planting more and more into the woods as we are able, to diversify it and add more cropping plants for ourselves and for the wildlife.
actually most of our actual cropping is in the 3 to 4 acres directly around our home and in the rear..out of the 10 acres us and our son have as property, and about 1
acre of that is a
pond.
as far as allowing those less fortunate to glean from our property, that has been a habit of ours over our entire lifetime, we have always shared our food stuffs and other crops such as perennials and others with every one we could..
this is looking south toward our road in our front yard.
here i'm standing on our back porch, looking back toward our drainfield garden and the woods beyond..that woods goes back nearly 1/4 mile.