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INDOOR GARDENING :
URBAN GARDENING:
An Edible Forest Grows in Richmond:
Urban Gardening Program Teaches Kids About Food, Nutrition
An Edible Forest Grows in Richmond:
Urban Gardening Program Teaches Kids About Food, Nutrition
By Lia Steakley
Friday Jul 2 2010
Nutrition
Scope
Stanford Medicine
Stanford University
<http://scopeblog.stanford.edu/archives/2010/07/an-edible-fores.html>
Where you live, poor access to healthy food and economics have been shown
to influence a person's risk of obesity. Approximately 23.5 million
Americans, including 6.5 million children, currently live in so-called
"food deserts," according to the White House.
<snip>
The Richmond Edible Forest Project, a joint effort between federal, city
and community nonprofit partners, aims to teach local youth how to garden
and produce a healthy food source for themselves and their communities.
Urban Tilth
Sponsorships
<http://www.urbantilth.org/page_id22/our-shop/
sponsorship-edible-forest-garden/>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/2crh3t2>
SPONSORSHIP:
Edible Forest Garden
Edible Forest Gardens are becoming the rage in permaculture circles.
The idea is to create a self-maintaining forest ecosystem in which all
7-layers of plants (from canopy to root crops) are either edible and/or
provide an ecosystem function (such as nutrient cycling or beneficial
critter habitat). Edible forest gardens hold much promise as a low-cost
way of converting sections of our commons to food productionadding a
delicious edible dimension to schools and parks. Most of the work in an
edible forest garden occurs in the design and installation phase; ideally,
once the edible forest garden is established the bulk of the maintenance
is in the harvesting!
Edible Forest Gardens
http://www.edibleforestgardens.com/
Edible Forest Gardens.com is dedicated to offering inspiring and practical
information on the vision, ecology, design, and stewardship of perennial
polycultures of multipurpose plants in small-scale settings. We intend
this website to grow into an information and networking resource for
newcomers, amateurs, students, and serious practitioners and researchers
alike.
Forest gardening is an idea whose time has come. We can consciously apply
the principles of ecology to the design of home scale gardens that mimic
forest ecosystem structure and function, but grow food, fuel, fiber,
fodder, fertilizer, "farmaceuticals," and fun. Indeed, we must begin
learning to apply ecological principles to the design of our food
production systems nowwe are rapidly approaching or are already at the
peak of planetary oil production, and the world of energy descent is upon
us. This sea change in our culture will require that we learn to live
within our energetic means and begin to rebuild ecosystems that support
human and humane lives without diminishing the ability of the ecosystem to
support our children and grandchildren.
Plant an Edible Forest Garden
Make your garden more productive by learning how to mimic a natural
forest.
August/September 2007
By Harvey Ussery
MOTHER EARTH NEWS
<http://www.motherearthnews.com/Organic-Gardening/2007-08-01/
Plant-Edible-Forest-Garden-Permaculture.aspx>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/oupoq2>
One of the main differences between a forest garden and the typical food
garden is that forest gardens rely on perennials. Most vegetable gardens
include mainly annuals such as tomatoes, lettuce or radishes.
To understand the difference this makes, consider the role of annual
plants in nature. Annuals colonize and cover disturbed ground, because
theirs is a high-energy, in-a-hurry lifestyle. In a single season, an
annual sprouts from seed, grows to maturity, ripens fruits and seeds, then
dies.
Because of the speed and fecundity of the annuals lifestyle, they are able
to cover patches of bare ground quickly. This energy intensive lifestyle
is only possible in full sun in shade, most annuals will not receive
sufficient power for their task. Over time, however, as the annuals
protect and build the soil of the disturbed area, they give way to
perennials, and these are the plants we want to establish in a forest
garden.
Most gardeners are used to a fair amount of disturbance and change in
their gardens, from tillage, crop rotation, and so on. In contrast, a
natural forest tends to maintain its character over time, and resists
rapid change. Changes in plant species do happen in a forest, but they
usually take place very slowly. The goal of the forest gardener is to
follow these patterns and establish a perennial polyculture from which
food is harvested with minimal disturbance.
Topics Covered in This Article:
LAYERS OF THE FOREST
PLANTS THAT WORK TOGETHER
CHOOSE A STRATEGY
PREPARE TO PLANT!
MY TWO SMALL FOREST GARDENS
A LARGER PROJECT: CONVERTING AN ORCHARD
Forest Gardening & Permaculture
Forest gardening is one element of the design system called permaculture.
There are many resources where you can learn more about the philosophy and
techniques of permaculture and forest gardening. Here are a few places to
start.
MAGAZINES
Permaculture Activist
Permaculture Magazine: Solutions for Sustainable Living
BOOKS
Gaias Garden: A Guide to Home Scale Permaculture
by Toby Hemenway
Edible Forest Gardens, Volumes One and Two
by Dave Jacke with Eric Toensmeier
ORGANIZATIONS
Permaculture Institute
Pojoaque, N.M.
(505) 455-0514
Forest gardening
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_gardening>
Forest gardening is a food production and land management system based on
replicating woodland ecosystems, but substituting trees (such as fruit or
nut trees), bushes, shrubs, herbs and vegetables which have yields
directly useful to humans. Making use of companion planting, these can be
intermixed to grow on multiple levels in the same area, as do the plants
in a forest.
In part based on the model of the Keralan home gardens, temperate-climate
forest gardening was pioneered by the late Robert Hart on his one eighth
of an acre (500 m) plot at Wenlock Edge in Shropshire.
Robert began the project over thirty years ago with the intention of
providing a healthy and therapeutic environment for himself and his
brother Lacon, both born with severe learning disabilities.
Starting as relatively conventional smallholders, Robert soon discovered
that maintaining large annual vegetable beds, rearing livestock and taking
care of an orchard were tasks beyond their strength. However, a small bed
of perennial vegetables and herbs they had planted was looking after
itself with little intervention. This led him to evolve the concept of the
"forest garden". Based on the observation that the natural forest can be
divided into distinct layers or "storeys", he used inter-cropping to
develop an existing small orchard of apples and pears into an edible
polyculture landscape consisting of seven levels.
The seven layers of the forest garden
Contents
1 Woodland gardening
2 Forest Gardening in the 21st Century
3 Traditional forest gardens
4 See also
5 References
5.1 Notes
5.2 Bibliography
5.3 External links
Edible Forest Gardens
Facebook
<http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=4546389004>
Edible Forest Gardens, Vol. 1, Ecological Vision and Theory for Temperate
Climate Permaculture
Dave Jacke with Eric Toensmeier
Chelsea Green Publishing, 2005, 396 pp., full color, charts and
illustrations, resources, plant lists, glossary, bibliography, index,
ISBN: 1-931498-79-2, Hard cover
Publisher's List Price $75.00
Non-member Price $73.50
AFTA MEMBER PRICE $53.21
AFTA Bookshop
Association for Temperate Agroforestry
<http://www.aftaweb.org/bookshop1.php?page=55>
Edible Forest Gardens,Vol. 1 is a monumental book that for the first time
brings all of the richness and complexity of nature's design within the
backyard gardeners reach. What began eight years ago as a brief handbook
has blossomed into a full-color, two-volume work that will inspire
generations of readers with a vision of achievable Edenone that can be
realized in a rural field, a suburban yard, or even a vacant city lot.
Detailed and technical, yet accessible to the average gardener, this book
will be a fundamental text in every horticulture program.
Forest gardening combines the art and science of arranging plants in
woodland-like patterns that forge mutually beneficial relationships,
creating a garden ecosystem that is much more than the sum of its parts.
It involves growing fruits, nuts, vegetables, herbs, mushrooms, and other
useful plants, in a way that mimics natural ecosystems.
How to Plant an Edible Forest Garden
eHow
<http://www.ehow.com/how_2156949_plant-edible-forest-garden.html>
Edible forest gardens make use of the natural interdependency of different
types of plants with each other and with the nutrients in the soil. The
advantages of a forest garden include, but are not limited to, an
efficient use of space, natural usage of shade-mimicking natural forests,
and a garden that needs little tending from year to year yet will
continual produce an edible harvest year round.
Edible Forest Gardens: an Invitation to Adventure - Spring 2002
Special Supplement on AgroForestry
Excerpted from the forthcoming book
Edible Forest Gardens: A Delicious and Practical Ecology
Copyright 2002, David Jacke with Eric Toensmeier
.pdf version with images (328 KB) and without (67 KB)
The Natural Farmer
<http://www.nofa.org/tnf/sp02/supplement/edible.php>
Edible forest gardening
Bunny Guinness
Published: 12:01AM BST 23 Oct 2007
Telegraph
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/
3345117/Edible-forest-gardening.html>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/23gbcmq>
Edible forest gardening was pioneered by Robert A de J Hart, a farmer and
journalist, in the Sixties.
He adapted African ideas for the English woodland, and was enthused by the
concept of an easy-to-maintain garden that incorporated simple, natural
elements in a highly productive space - not so much gardening in a forest
as gardening like the forest.
It is not necessary to have rolling acres to achieve this, as a suburban
plot can be managed wholly or partly in this fashion.
Do you need mature trees to create an edible forest garden?
No. Edible forest gardening involves creating a garden where plants
coexist in woodland patterns.
This type of gardening mimics the structure and function of forest
ecosystems, and requires choosing and planting a range of diverse and
productive crops for food, wood, dyes, herbs and so on. It can also
include spaces for relaxing and growing vegetables.
Eventually most of our gardens would become a type of woodland if left
untended for many years, as all our efforts at mowing lawns, weeding and
other controlling routines are holding back the natural succession.
The benefits of forest gardening are a relaxed, productive environment
that takes less maintenance. For the time-pressed gardener who loves the
idea of a bountiful garden but never gets round to sowing those lettuce
seeds, this might well be the answer.
Topics Covered in This Article:
Which crops are suitable?
What size and type of plot is necessary?
How much maintenance do they need?
Where can I see an edible forest garden for inspiration?
See the Centre for Alternative Technology website (www.cat.org.uk) for
more information.
Recommended book: Forest Gardening by Robert Hart Green (Earth Books).
USA: Permaculture and Edible Forest Garden Design at Sirius ...File
Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Quick View
Forest Garden Design Intensive. In the third week, course participants
will delve deeper into edible forest gardens in this ...
<http://www.livingroutes.org/programs/docs/LR_USA_curric.pdf>
OVERVIEW 3
COURSE SYLLABUS
U.S.A PERMACULTURE AT SIRIUS 4
COURSE DESCRIPTION 4
COURSE MODULES 4
I. PERMACULTURE DESIGN COURSE 4
II. FOREST GARDEN DESIGN INTENSIVE 4
COURSE OBJECTIVES 5
LEARNING MODALITIES 5
COURSE OUTLINE 5
DAILY SCHEDULE 7
COURSE REQUIREMENTS 7
GRADING 8
COURSE TEXT 8
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 8
The complete articles may be read at the URLs provided for each.
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Temple University
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