[Ccpg] New campaign: food forests across America!

Tue Apr 7 10:40:15 PDT 2009

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> From: LBUZZELL at aol.com
> Date: April 6, 2009 8:18:39 AM PDT
> To: sbogc at yahoogroups.com, sbfoodfuture at googlegroups.com, transition-sb at googlegroups.com 
> , cctransitiontowns at hopedance.net
> Subject: [transition-sb] new campaign: food forests across America!
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>
> Food Forests Across America!
>
> on Visionary Culture Radio!
> Monday April 6th, 8:00 pm PST
> Call In :: 646-649-1957
> Or Log In or Listen :: www.visionarycultureradio.com
>
>
> Greetings friends and permaculture enthusiasts -
> I am writing to invite your participation in a nation-wide campaign  
> called Food Forests Across America! - initiated by Erik Ohlsen. (See  
> his article posted on Permaculture Research Institute's site. http://permaculture.org.au/2009/01/26/food-forests-across-america 
> .
> Join the campaign for local food security and learn how you can help  
> to transform gardens, lawns, parks, and empty spaces into thriving  
> edible landscapes that are beautiful, regenerative, and produce an  
> abundance of delicious, locally grown food!  We can create  
> intentional systems that provide for our needs and the needs of the  
> earth by mirroring natural ecologies in our designs.
> What is a Food Forest Garden?
> A Food Forest describes an intentionally cultivated forest that  
> mimics the native ecosystem.  In designing a food forest, we observe  
> the community of plants in the forest.  The home Food Forest  
> reflects these observations by applying plants that function similar  
> to the native plants but have a higher yield, are more palatable, or  
> useful in some way to the designer.  Food Forests can offer an  
> incredible abundance while stewarding the landscape in a good way.
> Imagine a forest where every single tree is dripping with fresh  
> fruits and ripening nuts. Every shrub is packed with delicious  
> berries, and every other plant is a medicinal herb, culinary spice,  
> or beautiful edible flower. Tubers and root crops are abundant  
> underfoot, gourmet mushroom logs sprout in the shade, and hardy kiwi  
> vines climb back up through the layers of this multi-functional  
> forest of food.
> Food forests are diverse gardens modeled after natural ecosystems  
> designed to mimic the way a forest thrives and regenerates. A forest  
> continuously nourishing all elements in the system and produce a  
> vast diversity of outputs, but requires little or no inputs to  
> sustain itself. By recognizing the self-supporting, mutually  
> beneficial relationships of the elements in a forest - from tall  
> trees, smaller trees, shrubs, herbs, ground covers, vines, nitrogen  
> fixers, insectaries, fungi, animals, and more, the food forest  
> garden designs a similar system but replaces the components that are  
> in a common forest with species that are preferred edibles and more  
> useful for humans. The forest then becomes a Garden of Eden, in  
> which edible or useful plants are found from head to toe, where  
> something in season is always ready to eat, and the system requires  
> little or no maintenance to sustain and regenerate. As a food forest  
> mimics the ecology found in native forests, they are fantastic  
> examples of good soil and land stewardship.
> Food Forests Across America!\
> on Visionary Culture Radio!
> Monday April 6th, 8:00 pm PST
> Call In :: 646-649-1957
> Or Log In or Listen :: www.visionarycultureradio.com
>
> Tune into Visionary Culture Radio with Laura Fox on Monday for a  
> show on Food Forests Across America with special guest permaculture  
> teachers from the east to west coasts of the U.S.
> Special Guests Include:
> Erik Ohlsen - Founder & Director - Permaculture Earth Artisans
> Ethan Roland - Founder & Director - AppleSeed Permaculture
> Marisha Auerbach - Founder & Director - Herb 'n Wisdom
> Max Meyers - Director - Mendocino Ecological Learning Center
> Jay Ma - Co-Founder, Director of Programs & Development - Living  
> Mandala
> John Valenzuela - Veteran Permaculture Designer, Educator & Consultant
> Where Can I Learn About Forest Gardens?
>
> We recommend the books-
> Edible Forest Gardens, by Dave Jacke and Eric Toensmeier, http://www.edibleforestgardens.com
> Forest Gardening by Robert Hart
> How to Make a Forest Garden by Patrick Whitefield
> Designing and Maintaining Your Edible Landscape Naturally by Robert  
> Kourik
> Roots Demystified by Robert Kourik
> - Food Forests Across America posted at the Permaculture Research  
> Institute: .http://permaculture.org.au/2009/01/26/food-forests-across-america
> - Forest Gardening Blog - started by Ethan Roland:  http://forestgardenimmersion.blogspot.com/
> - Garden        of Eden: Permaculture Revolution published in  
> Greenlifestyles by        Jay Ma
> - 300 year Old Food Forest in Vietnam: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5ZgzwoQ-ao
>
> as well as Permaculture resources, practices, and philosophies.
>
> The best way is to learn how to design and install a Food Forest  
> Garden is by taking a hands-on course.
> To learn more about such offerings, check out www.livingmandala.com
> or catalyse a Food Forest workshop in your own bioregion!
>
> In the local Olympia area, Terra Commons has many opportunities to  
> learn about and work in forest gardens, check out: http://www.oly-wa.us/Terra/
>
> All are invite to join in the Food Forest at the Wild Thyme Farm.  
> Please contact Marisha Auerbach to schedule:  
> queenbee at herbnwisdom.com or (360) 273-7117
>
>
> --
> Herb'n Wisdom
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> www.herbnwisdom.com
> www.wildthymefarm.com
>
> "...the greatest change we need to make is from consumption to
> production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only  
> 10% of
> us do this, there is enough for everyone.
> Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who  
> depend on
> the very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets, not  
> food
> and shelter." - Bill Mollison
>
>
>
> Feeling the pinch at the grocery store? Make dinner for $10 or less.
>
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