Edible Forest Garden Design

As we re on a steep block we had to do some drastic terracing to create growing spaces slow and catch water nutrients and enable us to be able to.

Edible forest garden design. Through careful observation using the permaculture design process we identified that growing perennial edibles would help us fix erosion problems and stabilize the hillside. The edible forest garden is one of the best known and easiest to implement methods of permaculture 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.

Permaculture is most frequently applied in gardening and homestead planning and one of the essential designs is a forest garden. It was fun to redefine the space as a community food forest rather than as a typical garden of raised vegetable beds. My first experience with planting a food forest was at my local community garden located on a slope.

Instead of looking at a space as a 2 dimensional floor plan of lawns hedges shrubs and trees we design gardens to make use of all the spaces in between. Edible forest gardening focuses on occupying all the available niches in the garden to produce food or other useful benefits.