Backyard Homesteading week 2: Base Mapping for

L’Étoile Homestead

The Process: Taking measurements I was eager to go field learning:

I choose measuring the long way… And it did take long!

Walking on the land enabled me to really get

a better feeling of the place, and to “discover” where some important features were located

Discoveries:Walking on the land with an eye of person

doing mapping, I saw some aspects and strengths that I will want to make use of them later on this course:

Different habitats: where the most humid place is located, the most dense part of the forest, the warmest spot…

Already present species: wild apples, high bush cranberries, currents… all hiding in the forest

And way too much grass lawn not serving anymore!

The Process: Putting it in paperThe biggest challenge!

With the large amounts of measurements taken, I was persuaded I was ready to start mapping…

Not so! It looked like some measures were contradicting each others: so I went check up the real measures a few

times on-site.

The Process: DrawingThis part made me see the large overview of

the land I am going to design: It is like rediscovering the land with new eyes, on a property that I thought I knew like the back

of my hand!This makes me eager to learn more and to be able to really get into designing

The Final Result: I am proud of it!