A food forest is a agricultural system that is based on a woodland ecosystem. A food forest has herbs, perennial vegetables, shrubs and fruit and nut trees growing along side each other in a self sustainable manner. It's an edible forest, hence 'food forest'. These systems are incredibly low maintenance. The trees lose their leaves and mulch the plants to replenish the soil. Edible vines climb up the trees reaching for light and increasing their yield. Livestock run freely through the system and fertilize the forest floor. Food forests provide so much back considering the labour required to maintain them. I went to a Food Forest workshop in Vancouver a few years back from BC expert Richard Walker. He is the founder of Dragon's Eye Nursery in Grand Forks. He hosts Food Forest Workshops in the Lower Mainland regularly, I urge you to sign up if you're interested. They tend to sell out quickly though because of his 25 years of expertise and wealth of knowledge. His nursery is chock full of edible plants that are winter hardy to Northern BC conditions. There is also a local nursery in South Delta called Tropic to Tropic Plants owned by Ray Mattei that has an inventory of tropical and winter hardy edible plants and trees. One day I hope to own a piece of land to create my own food forest. I hope you can watch these videos and be inspired by the possibilities with your own yard.
Thursday, December 19, 2013
A Few of My Favourite Things
Christmas is just around the corner. With all these raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens and brown paper packages tied up with string, I thought I'd come up with a few of my favourite things....gardening video wise anyway. I've added three videos; a 30 Year Old Food Forest in Australia, a 300 Year Old Food Forest in Vietnam, and a 2000 Year Old Food Forest in Morocco.
A food forest is a agricultural system that is based on a woodland ecosystem. A food forest has herbs, perennial vegetables, shrubs and fruit and nut trees growing along side each other in a self sustainable manner. It's an edible forest, hence 'food forest'. These systems are incredibly low maintenance. The trees lose their leaves and mulch the plants to replenish the soil. Edible vines climb up the trees reaching for light and increasing their yield. Livestock run freely through the system and fertilize the forest floor. Food forests provide so much back considering the labour required to maintain them. I went to a Food Forest workshop in Vancouver a few years back from BC expert Richard Walker. He is the founder of Dragon's Eye Nursery in Grand Forks. He hosts Food Forest Workshops in the Lower Mainland regularly, I urge you to sign up if you're interested. They tend to sell out quickly though because of his 25 years of expertise and wealth of knowledge. His nursery is chock full of edible plants that are winter hardy to Northern BC conditions. There is also a local nursery in South Delta called Tropic to Tropic Plants owned by Ray Mattei that has an inventory of tropical and winter hardy edible plants and trees. One day I hope to own a piece of land to create my own food forest. I hope you can watch these videos and be inspired by the possibilities with your own yard.
A food forest is a agricultural system that is based on a woodland ecosystem. A food forest has herbs, perennial vegetables, shrubs and fruit and nut trees growing along side each other in a self sustainable manner. It's an edible forest, hence 'food forest'. These systems are incredibly low maintenance. The trees lose their leaves and mulch the plants to replenish the soil. Edible vines climb up the trees reaching for light and increasing their yield. Livestock run freely through the system and fertilize the forest floor. Food forests provide so much back considering the labour required to maintain them. I went to a Food Forest workshop in Vancouver a few years back from BC expert Richard Walker. He is the founder of Dragon's Eye Nursery in Grand Forks. He hosts Food Forest Workshops in the Lower Mainland regularly, I urge you to sign up if you're interested. They tend to sell out quickly though because of his 25 years of expertise and wealth of knowledge. His nursery is chock full of edible plants that are winter hardy to Northern BC conditions. There is also a local nursery in South Delta called Tropic to Tropic Plants owned by Ray Mattei that has an inventory of tropical and winter hardy edible plants and trees. One day I hope to own a piece of land to create my own food forest. I hope you can watch these videos and be inspired by the possibilities with your own yard.
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