what is a forest garden?
a forest garden is a sustainable low maintenance food producing garden
modeled after a young natural woodland, comprised of a multi storied network
of edible and human useful plants and trees all growing within each other
as we see in nature. Fruit and nut bearing trees and shrubs are used
along with perennial vegetables, herbs and vines, self mulching, self feeding,
self fending, protecting, regenerating itself year after year.
Forest gardening is about returning to a place of honoring our relationship and
connection to Nature, of sacred partnership with the living planet we comprise, and
through these relationships reinventing and building whole connected thriving eco
systems that sustain and regenerate all life.
“Forest gardening is the most high yield, low maintenance, most sustainable form of agriculture available to humanity. Incorporating knowledge from the fields of permaculture, agriculture, ecology, biology and other natural sciences into a holistic set of evolving tools and techniques, edible forest gardening is one of humanity’s greatest hopes for a stable and prosperous future.” -David Jacke; of Edible Forest Gardens
