Creating a Forest Garden

Author: Martin Crawford
Publisher: Green Books
ISBN: 0857845535
Category : Edible forest gardens
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Forest gardening is a novel way of growing edible crops - with nature doing most of the work for you. A forest garden is modelled on young natural woodland, with a wide range of crops grown in different vertical layers. Unlike in a conventional garden, there is little need for digging, weeding or pest control. Species are chosen for their beneficial effects on each other, creating a healthy system that maintains its own fertility. Creating a Forest Garden tells you everything you need to know, whether you want to plant a small area in your back garden or develop a larger plat. It includes advice on planning, design (using permaculture principles), planting and maintenance, and a detailed directory of over 500 trees, shrubs, herbaceous perennials, annuals, root crops and climbers - almost all of them edible and many very unusual. As well as more familiar plants you can grow your own chokeberries, goji berries, yams, heartnuts, bamboo shoots and buffalo currants - while creating a beautiful space that has great environmental benefits. In the light of our changing climate it is important that we find new ways of growing food sustainably, without compromising soil health, food quality or biodiversity. Forest gardening offers an exciting solution to the challenge.--COVER.

Micro-Gardening Ideas for Schools, Outdoor Learning and Edible Forest Gardens

Author: James Paris
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781543033076
Category : Edible forest gardens
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Permaculture gardening using micro-gardening techniques, means that it is possible to grow your own food in a way that guarantees best quality produce even if you only have a small area to grow.This introduction to 8 micro-gardening ideas, means that the reader is well informed of the choices available, and the school teacher able to teach systems that will expand and inform the minds of gardening students.Here are just some of the things you will learn about in this book...Raised Bed Gardening: Possibly one of the best known and written about gardening systems. Easy and productive - an absolute must for anyone wanting to expand their food production.Square Foot Gardening: An exceptional vegetable growing system that offers the user all-year-round vegetable growing from a tiny area.Keyhole Gardening: A little-known but productive system used with great success in the African continent and promoted widely by the UK charity sendacow.org.Lasagna Gardening: This system using an inventive way to grow vegetables in a growing compound made from layered organic waste and cardboard. No need for artificial fertilisers - this system feeds itself! Hot Bed Gardening: Excellent for increasing the growing window as it heats the soil naturally, meaning you can plant earlier and grow excellent vegetables.All this and much more besides in this introduction to micro-gardening using these permaculture growing systems.

The Suburban Micro-farm

Author: Amy Stross
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780997520835
Category : Edible landscaping
Languages : en
Pages : 356

Book Description
Reduce your lawn and your grocery budget. Take gardening to the next level! Would you like to grow healthy food for your table? Do you want to learn the secrets of farming even though you live in a neighborhood? Author Amy Stross talks straight about why the suburbs might be the ideal place for a small farm. In these pages you'll learn: How to make your landscape as productive as it is beautiful Why the suburbs are primed with food-growing potential How to choose the best crops for success Why you don't need the perfect yard to have a micro-farm How to use easy permaculture techniques for abundant harvests If you're ready to create a beautiful, edible yard, this book is for you. The Suburban Micro-Farm will show you how to grow your own fruits, herbs, and vegetables even on a limited schedule. From seed to harvest, this book will keep you on track so you feel a sense of accomplishment for your efforts. You'll learn gardening tricks that are essential to success, like how to deal with a 'brown thumb', how to develop and nurture healthy soil, and how to manage garden pests. Although this book has everything a new gardener needs to get started, experienced gardeners will not be disappointed. With helpful tips throughout, you will love the in-depth chapters about permaculture and making money on the micro-farm.

Micro-Gardening Ideas For Schools. Outdoor Learning & Edible Forest Gardens

Author: James Paris
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
HOW TO GROW VEGETABLES IN FOREST GARDENS OR SMALL SPACES USING ORGANIC MIRO-GARDENING TECHNIQUES *LARGE PRINT - LARGE SIZE EDITION PAPERBACK (11" X 8.5") Growing Vegetables using micro-gardening techniques, means that it is possible to grow your own food in a way that guarantees best quality produce even if you only have a small area to grow. This introduction to 8 micro-gardening ideas, means that the reader is well informed of the choices available, and the school teacher able to teach systems that will expand and inform the minds of gardening students eager to learn outdoor self-sufficiency skills.. Here are just some of the things you will learn about in this book... Raised Bed Gardening: Possibly one of the best known and written about gardening systems.Easy and productive - an absolute must for anyone wanting to expand their food production. Foot Square Gardening: An exceptional vegetable growing system that offers the user highly productive vegetable growing from equal areas of only 1 foot square. Keyhole Gardening: A little-known but productive system used with great success in the African continent and promoted widely by the UK charity sendacow.org. Lasagna Gardening: This system using an inventive way to grow vegetables in a growing compound made from layered organic waste and cardboard. No need for artificial fertilizers - this system feeds itself! Hot Bed Gardening: Excellent for increasing the growing window as it heats the soil naturally, meaning you can plant earlier and grow excellent vegetables. Hugelkultur Gardens: How to build your own drought-resistant garden from a pile of old sticks!This growing medium feeds and waters itself - check it out... Trees & Shrubs: A selection of common trees and shrubs that can produce fruit, give shade, offer protection, and inflict injury! All this and much more besides in this introduction to micro-gardening for the urban or school garden.

Edible Landscaping

Author:
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1578051541
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Grow clean, delicious produce at home, saving money and natural resources at the same time. Since Rosalind Creasy popularized the concept of landscaping with edibles a quarter-century ago, interest in eating healthy, fresh, locally grown foods has swept across the nation. And food plants have been freed from the backyard, gracing the finest landscapes--even the White House grounds! Creasy's expertise on edibles and how to incorporate them in beautifully designed outdoor environments was first showcased in the original edition of Edible Landscaping, hailed by gardeners everywhere as a groundbreaking classic. Now this highly anticipated new edition presents the latest design and how-to information in a glorious full-color format, featuring more than 300 inspiring photographs. Drawing on the author's decades of research and experience, the book presents everything you need to know to create an inviting home landscape that will yield mouthwatering vegetables, fruits, nuts, and berries. The comprehensive "Encyclopedia of Edibles"--a book in itself--provides horticultural information, culinary uses, sources, and recommended varieties; and appendices cover the basics of planting and maintenance, and of controlling pests and diseases using organic and environmentally friendly practices.

SPIN-farming Basics

Author: Wally Satzewich
Publisher: Spin Farming LLC
ISBN: 9780615384092
Category : Family farms
Languages : en
Pages : 112

Book Description
SPIN-Farming Basics outlines how to make money growing common vegetables in backyards, front lawns,neighborhood lots or as part of larger acreages in the country. SPIN stands for small plot intensive, and SPIN-Farming Basics provides everything you'd expect from a good franchise: a business concept, marketing advice, financial benchmarks and a detailed day-to-day workflow. It is non-technical, easy-to-understand and inexpensive-to-implement and shows readers how to farm commercially wherever they live, as long as there are nearby markets to support them.

Landscaping with Edible Plants in Texas

Author: Cheryl Beesley
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1623493234
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 298

Book Description
In this complete reference to integrating edible plants into a wide range of private and public landscapes, landscape designer Cheryl Beesley thoroughly answers the questions of how to plant, where to plant, and what to plant. She covers garden layout, bed construction, and fencing options and offers specific design examples for a wide variety of possibilities for edible landscapes, such as a schoolyard, restaurant, or residence. She presents an extensive pallet of edible plant choices for Texas arranged by trees, shrubs, perennials, and annuals and includes detailed information about plant families as well as individual plants. Appendixes instruct readers on disease and insect control, additional variety selections, and plant and seed sources. As the author points out, however they are incorporated, vegetables and fruits—long relegated to their own plots and often hidden from view—can become beautiful and practical additions to the ornamental landscape.

Grocery Row Gardening

Author: David The Good
Publisher: Good Books
ISBN: 9781955289078
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 82

Book Description
Grocery Row Gardening An Exciting New Permaculture Gardening System Imagine creating a garden where apples and asparagus thrive beside beans and broccoli. Picture beautiful rows of trees, vegetables and flowers all growing together as butterflies, birds and bees dance overhead. Walk through with a basket and pick pears and blueberries, peppers and tomatoes, herbs and cut flowers - all from the same garden. With Grocery Row Gardening, you'll learn to harness the power of a forest's edge by linking the abundance of a food forest with a traditional vegetable garden. Grocery Row Gardening is a new permaculture gardening method that combines multiple different gardening systems into a resilient, pest-resistant, long-term food generating machine for your backyard. It combines ideas as diverse as Steve Solomon's writings on micronutrients with Geoff Lawton's food forest design, with Stefan Sobkowiak's permaculture orchard and Ernst Götsch's Syntropic Farming, with Ann Ralph's backyard orchard culture and edible hedges. It makes for a beautiful and powerful permaculture method that sails through weather extremes and creates a survival garden which will keep your family fed with a wide range of produce, month after month. Though this system is still in development, this book outlines how you can join in the fun and experimentation as Grocery Row Gardening takes off. Learn to think about growing food in a whole new way and create your most diverse and beautiful garden yet.

The Humane Gardener

Author: Nancy Lawson
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1616896175
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
In this eloquent plea for compassion and respect for all species, journalist and gardener Nancy Lawson describes why and how to welcome wildlife to our backyards. Through engaging anecdotes and inspired advice, profiles of home gardeners throughout the country, and interviews with scientists and horticulturalists, Lawson applies the broader lessons of ecology to our own outdoor spaces. Detailed chapters address planting for wildlife by choosing native species; providing habitats that shelter baby animals, as well as birds, bees, and butterflies; creating safe zones in the garden; cohabiting with creatures often regarded as pests; letting nature be your garden designer; and encouraging natural processes and evolution in the garden. The Humane Gardener fills a unique niche in describing simple principles for both attracting wildlife and peacefully resolving conflicts with all the creatures that share our world.

Permaculture One

Author: Bill Mollison
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780908228034
Category : Agricultural ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 127

Book Description