Frank Woolf
07-11-2009, 06:24 AM
With peak oil, global warming, water and food shortages very likely its time for people to think local, especially poor people who are already struggling to survive on tiny farm lots.
Using permaculture principles you can transform small farm lots, gardens, lawns, parks, and empty spaces into thriving edible landscapes that are beautiful, regenerative, and produce an abundance of delicious, locally grown food!
Imagine a forest where every tree is producing fresh fruits and nuts. Every shrub has delicious berries, and every other plant is a medicinal herb, culinary spice, or edible flower. Tubers and root crops are abundant underfoot, fruit and vegetable vines climb up through the layers of this forest of food.
Food forests are diverse gardens modeled after natural ecosystems designed to mimic the way a forest thrives and regenerates. A forest continuously nourishing all elements in the system and produce a vast diversity of outputs, but requires little or no inputs to sustain itself. By recognizing the self-supporting, mutually beneficial relationships of the elements in a forest - from tall trees, smaller trees, shrubs, herbs, ground covers, vines, nitrogen fixers, insectaries, fungi, animals, and more, the food forest garden design is a similar system but replaces the components that are in a common forest with species that are preferred edibles and more useful for humans.
The great thing is it costs very little and needs little or even no maintenance while the soil gets more and more fertile.
Using permaculture principles you can transform small farm lots, gardens, lawns, parks, and empty spaces into thriving edible landscapes that are beautiful, regenerative, and produce an abundance of delicious, locally grown food!
Imagine a forest where every tree is producing fresh fruits and nuts. Every shrub has delicious berries, and every other plant is a medicinal herb, culinary spice, or edible flower. Tubers and root crops are abundant underfoot, fruit and vegetable vines climb up through the layers of this forest of food.
Food forests are diverse gardens modeled after natural ecosystems designed to mimic the way a forest thrives and regenerates. A forest continuously nourishing all elements in the system and produce a vast diversity of outputs, but requires little or no inputs to sustain itself. By recognizing the self-supporting, mutually beneficial relationships of the elements in a forest - from tall trees, smaller trees, shrubs, herbs, ground covers, vines, nitrogen fixers, insectaries, fungi, animals, and more, the food forest garden design is a similar system but replaces the components that are in a common forest with species that are preferred edibles and more useful for humans.
The great thing is it costs very little and needs little or even no maintenance while the soil gets more and more fertile.