Volume Two: Design and Practice
Introduction: a Forest Gardener's Tool Kit
1: Issues and Strategies in Forest Garden Design and Management
Design Elements
Ecosystem Dynamics
Feature article 1:Beneficial Wildlife Habitat Principles
Desired Conditions
2: A Forest Garden Pattern Language
What is a Pattern Language?
A Forest Garden Pattern Language
Box 2.1: The Oak Beams of New College, Oxford
3: Design Processes 1: Overview, Goals and Assessments
Design Process Overview
Clear Intentions: Articulating Your
Gardening Goals
Basic Mapping for Landscape Design
Site Analysis and Assessment
Feature Article 2: Reading Your Soil Horizons
Box 3.1: Designing Your Design Process
Box 3.2: Tools of the Designer's Trade
Box 3.3: Bubble Diagramming
Box 3.4: The Scale of Permanence
4: Design Processes 2: The Design Phase
The Four Stages of the Design Phase
The Four Realms of the Forest Garden Design
Integrating the Four Realms and the Four Stages
Design Phase How-To
Feature Article 3: Ground-Cover Polycultures
5: Site Preparation
Site Preparation
A Rogue's Gallery of Challenging Site Conditions
A Hero's Gallery of Site-Prep Strategies and Techniques
Feature Article 4: Mulch
6: Garden Establishment
The Order of Events
Staking Out
Acquiring Plants
Organizing Tools, Material, and Helpers
Planting Day
Aftercare: Proactive Plant Establishment
7: Management, Maintenance, and Coevolution
Tools of the Trade
Management
Grunt Labor and Its Fruits: Maintenance and Harvesting
Coevolution: The Future of Forest
Gardening
Epilogue: The Story of Robert
Appendices
Introduction to the Appendices
Appendix 1: Plant Species Matrix
Appendix 2: Species-by-Use Tables
Appendix 3: Species-by-Function Tables
Appendix 4: Species of Concern
Appendix 5: Niche Requirements of Beneficial Animals
Appendix 6: Plant Hardiness Zone Maps
Appendix 7: Resources
Glossary
Bibliography
Index of Latin Synonyms
Index of Common and Latin Names
General Index
