[Scpg] Visionary Culture Radio :: Food Forests Across America!

[Santa Barbara Permaculture Network]

Host Name: 
<http://www.blogtalkradio.com/rawinspirations>RawInspirationsRadio<http://www.blogtalkradio.com/rawinspirations> 

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 
<http://www.blogtalkradio.com/rawinspirations/2009/04/07/Visionary-Culture-Radio-with-host-Laura-Fox#>Artisans 
Ethan Roland - Founder & Director - AppleSeed Permaculture Marisha 
Auerbach - Founder & Director - Herb 'n Wisdom Max Meyers - Director 
- Mendocino Ecological 
<http://www.blogtalkradio.com/rawinspirations/2009/04/07/Visionary-Culture-Radio-with-host-Laura-Fox#>Learning 
<http://www.blogtalkradio.com/rawinspirations/2009/04/07/Visionary-Culture-Radio-with-host-Laura-Fox#>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>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.





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order to grow." - Anonymous

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