Permaculture Forest Garden Design

The most visible difference between permaculture and what otherwise might just be called organic gardening is the presence of a food forest the word permaculture was formed in the 1970s from a contraction of the words permanent and agriculture.

Permaculture forest garden design. I m working on a fantastic project in llandeilo a small south facing front garden in collaboration with the can do permaculture tywi. Permaculture is most frequently applied in gardening and homestead planning and one of the essential designs is a forest garden. See more ideas about permaculture permaculture gardening permaculture design.

Base map for the permaculture farm design. Illustration from gaia s garden by toby hemenway excellent reference when designing a food forest. There are four basic layouts that determine the final look of the food forest.

This principle facilitates the flow of energy to be cyclical and full of rhythm to let the system evolve in a spectacular fashion. They are very enjoyable to design build and interact with. Forest gardens are an excellent way to produce food and other resources for humans while enhancing biodiversity by providing a range of habitat for wildlife within the design.

Food forests or edible forest gardens are life filled places that not only provide food for people but habitat for wildlife carbon sequestering biodiversity natural soil building beauty and tranquility and a host of other benefits you just need to take a. Creating a forest garden is an intellectual pursuit as well as a physical one. Through careful observation using the permaculture design process we identified that growing perennial edibles would help us fix erosion problems and stabilize the hillside.

I really think that your small garden can be a forest garden because to be a forest garden is more abut the principles than the size. Maddy and tim harland from permaculture magazine show you around their wild forest garden established in 1991. Much of the latter work was guided by permaculture design.

Learn how with good zoning you can establish a thriving productive edible landscape full of useful medicinal and edible trees and plants and create a wildlife habitat that is teaming with biodiversity at the same time. My first experience with planting a food forest was at my local community garden located on a slope. To recap the principles are.