The North Field is a gently sloping expanse that slopes to the north, draining into the north neighbour's yard. It gets full sun all day long. It has a fence along the boundary and the neighbour mows a path along my side of the fence to keep the weeds off the fence. I've planted wild plum and hazel nuts along the eastern part near the north border and they've been doing ok except that native vine honeysuckle is invading from the neighbour's property. Upslope from the border is large area that was used for the geothermal pipe system, and the subsidence and rain have created gullies and a mud flood . The erosion is bad but not serious. While doing an initial planting of red clover I found nails and bottles and other things the digging machine brought up. In the late spring I planted pines near the south end and native bushes after a gap downslope to the north, and at the north end of the disturbed area I put in a bunch of elder berry bushes.

A cover crop of red clover was scattered over the whole area, and by end of summer was waist high with other "weeds".