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Edible Forest Garden Design
The edible forest garden is one of the best known and easiest to implement methods of permaculture design.
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. A clear diagram of the seven layers of an edible forest garden photo credit. 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.
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. 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.
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. Permaculture is most frequently applied in gardening and homestead planning and one of the essential designs is a forest garden.
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