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RawInspirationsRadio
Show Name: Visionary Culture Radio :: Food Forests Across America!
Date / Length: 4/6/2009 8:00 PM - 1 hr 30 min
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/rawinspirations/2009/04/07/Visionary-Culture-Radio-with-host-Laura-Fox
Description:
Monday April 6th, 8:00 pm PST Tune into Visionary Culture Radio with
Laura Fox on Monday for a show on Food Forests Across America with
special guest permaculture teachers from the east to west coasts of the
U.S. visionary0culture-radio-logo Call In :: 646-649-1957 Or Log In or
Listen ::
www.visionarycultureradio.com Special Guests Include: Erik Ohlsen -
Founder & Director - Permaculture Earth
Artisans Ethan
Roland - Founder & Director - AppleSeed Permaculture Marisha Auerbach
- Founder & Director - Herb ‘n Wisdom Max Meyers - Director -
Mendocino Ecological
Learning
Center
Jay Ma - Co-Founder, Director of Programs &
Development -
Food Forests Across America!
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See article posted on Permaculture Research Institute's site.
http://permaculture.org.au/2009/01/26/food-forests-across-america.
Join the campaign for local food security and learn how you can help to
transform gardens, lawns, parks, and empty spaces into thriving edible
landscapes that are beautiful, regenerative, and produce an abundance of
delicious, locally grown food! We can create intentional systems
that provide for our needs and the needs of the earth by mirroring
natural ecologies in our designs.
What is a Food Forest Garden?
A Food Forest describes an intentionally cultivated forest that
mimics the native ecosystem. In designing a food forest, we observe
the community of plants in the forest. The home Food Forest
reflects these observations by applying plants that function similar to
the native plants but have a higher yield, are more palatable, or useful
in some way to the designer. Food Forests can offer an incredible
abundance while stewarding the landscape in a good way.
Imagine a forest where every single tree is dripping with fresh fruits
and ripening nuts. Every shrub is packed with delicious berries, and
every other plant is a medicinal herb, culinary spice, or beautiful
edible flower. Tubers and root crops are abundant underfoot, gourmet
mushroom logs sprout in the shade, and hardy kiwi vines climb back up
through the layers of this multi-functional 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 designs 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 forest then becomes a Garden of
Eden, in which edible or useful plants are found from head to toe, where
something in season is always ready to eat, and the system requires
little or no maintenance to sustain and regenerate. As a food forest
mimics the ecology found in native forests, they are fantastic examples
of good soil and land stewardship.
Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
an educational
non-profit since 2000
(805) 962-2571
P.O. Box 92156, Santa Barbara, CA 93190
margie@sbpermaculture.org
www.sbpermaculture.org
"We are like trees,
we must create new leaves, in new directions, in order to grow." -
Anonymous