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  • From: Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [permaculture] Edible Forest Gardens Home
  • Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 14:42:19 -0400

Edible Forest Gardens Home
http://www.edibleforestgardens.com/

Edible Forest Gardens.com is dedicated to offering inspiring and practical
information on the vision, ecology, design, and stewardship of perennial
polycultures of multipurpose plants in small-scale settings. We intend
this website to grow into an information and networking resource for
newcomers, amateurs, students, and serious practitioners and researchers
alike.

Forest gardening is an idea whose time has come. We can consciously apply
the principles of ecology to the design of home scale gardens that mimic
forest ecosystem structure and function, but grow food, fuel, fiber,
fodder, fertilizer, "farmaceuticals," and fun. Indeed, we must begin
learning to apply ecological principles to the design of our food
production systems now—we have surpassed the peak of planetary oil
production, so the world of energy descent lies upon us. This sea change
in our culture will require that we learn to live within our energetic
means and rebuild ecosystems that support human and humane lives without
diminishing the ability of the ecosystem to support our children and
grandchildren.

While this global problem is huge, most of the solutions available to us
are local, personal, empowering, and potentially enlivening, enlightening,
and fun. Edible forest gardening is one of these solutions, and we now have
the resources at hand to transform our own yards and gardens into
productive paradises. We intend this website and the book Edible Forest
Gardens that you can buy here to give you the most sophisticated and
down-to-earth information available to maximize your success as a forest
gardener.

Forest gardens have much to offer on a practical level, and they have much
to teach us about how to live in community as free and interdependent
beings in a functional way. We hope that you will trust your innate ability
to learn and contribute to the larger community of human beings who care
about living sanely and humanely as we journey through energy descent.
Welcome to the adventure of our lifetimes!

We hope you enjoy what we offer here, and that you will visit often to add
your thoughts and experiences to the mix.

Peace and blessings to you and yours.

Dave Jacke

Above photo of skirret (*Sium sisarum*) roots by Eric Toensmeier. Skirret
roots are edible and tasty, and the flowers provide nectar to specialist
and generalist insect predators. This is one of many forest garden species
ripe for development into a high-value crop.



  • [permaculture] Edible Forest Gardens Home, Lawrence London, 09/23/2015

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