Take a walk in a wooded area and observe the diversity of plants. Trees, shrubs and other perennials grow together as a strong family unit. You can have that same kind of synergy in an edible garden. Dave Jacke has written books on the ecology and design of home-scale foodRead More →
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When you think of a forest, you are likely to imagine a large area with dense forest cover. But forest gardening, while it mimics a natural forest or woodland ecosystem in many ways, doesn’t have to resemble one in size. Forest gardening concepts can be applied even on a veryRead More →
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While food forests (edible gardens or farms designed to model natural forests) have nourished people around the world for thousands of years, in Europe, Australia, and North American (non-Native American) cultures, the concept n ‘really took off in about thirty years. There are. This means that we are just startingRead More →
Coming down from the top floor, the last two layers of a forest garden are the perennial herbaceous layer and the root zone, the rhizosphere, as well as the vines. I don’t plant a lot of roots mainly because I don’t want to dig up a lot of my forestRead More →
In my last blog on forest gardening i described the lower canopy layer of small trees and suggested well-known fruits and nuts like apples, plums and hazelnuts and encouraged you to explore exotic plants like Siberian peas and hazelnut inoculated with truffles. Beneath the lower canopy of smaller trees isRead More →
In my last blog, I described how a forest garden is designed to mimic a small wood or forest with up to seven “layers”. These usually consist of edible, medicinal or useful plants, trees, shrubs, vines, grasses, ground covers and bulbs or tubers. I also explained what kind of treesRead More →
Forests are often among the most productive and biodiverse habitats on our planet. Traditional peoples around the world have studied their forests and designed sustainable agriculture based on them. These can be found in the Americas, Asia and Africa as well as Europe. Robert Hart (1913-2000), a pioneer of theRead More →