Backyard food plot, 1-2 acres, for year-round wildlife viewing and occasional hunting. Low maintenance is preferred. I'm researching clover and alfalfa currently. What would you plant??? This is purely hypothetical at this point, so I don't know soil type, terrain, etc.
Antler king mix of clover has worked for me the past few years! easy to maintain and grows pretty much anywhere.
I've been kicking the idea around of doing perennial patches separated by annual plantings on a small 1 1/2 acre plot but I also like to overthink ideas and figure out a plethora of ways to complicate things. If you are looking for low maintenance then clover, alfalfa and chicory will do just fine. Just put a good amount of work in to the initial preparation of the seed bed. You can always leave a little room around the edge to plant whatever annuals you want, corn, soybean, buckwheat, lab lab, clay peas sunnhemp, sunflowers in the summer and brassicas in the winter.
